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We Have Arabic At This School?: The Impact Of Neoliberalism And Orientalism On Arabic Education In The United States, Ella V. Pastore

Undergraduate Honors Theses

This research examines Arabic education in the United States at the undergraduate level, highlighting the question: How do forces such as Orientalism, globalization, and neoliberalism affect the way that the Arabic language is taught and recognized in the United States? The Arabic programs of three highly accredited American universities are presented, in relation to their Japanese programs. While Japanese is a language that faces its own Orientalisms and imperial history with the West, Japan is currently not a country that is prioritized through national security interests, with Arabic being designated as a “Critical Language”. Through examination of the advertisement of …

Music Making In Iran From The 15th To The Early 20th Century, Amir Hosein Pourjavady

Music & Performance in Muslim Contexts

Music Making in Iran looks at the change and evolution of music in Iran from both social and theoretical perspectives.

Amir Hosein Pourjavady scrutinises the emergence and development of modal entities, rules for modulation, the formation of court repertoires, the progress of rhythmic structures, vocal and instrumental genres and forms of composition. Through this lens, Hosein investigates how Iranian music has been impacted by Western influence, socio-political developments and contact with other musical cultures.

Based on primary sources, the book reveals many new discoveries in its examination of music making during this period, including its centres of patronage, the social …

A Holistic Approach To Creating Cultures Of Quality Excellence Within Higher Education Institutions In North Carolina, Natalie Aman

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This paper first seeks to identify cultural factors of faculty, staff, and students within Higher Education Intuitions (HEI) and then understand how those factors affect the individual as well as the overall larger population of all studied groups to create cultures of quality excellence. Secondary data collected from government databases was used for the research. The independent variables included cultural factors for each stakeholder and the dependent variables included satisfaction levels of each stakeholder. Faculty and staff independent cultural variables included Performance Management, Supervisor/Department Chair Effectiveness, Communication & Collaboration, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging, and Mission and Pride. The dependent variable …

A Qualitative Case Study In Esl Education: Navigating Sexual Identities And Queerness In Language Learning On The Us-Mexico Border, Majd Sarah

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this qualitative case study is to explore the language learning experiences of community college students who self-identify as LGBTQ+ and study English as a Second Language (ESL) on the U.S.-Mexico border. In order to understand the relationship between ESL language learning and the identities of community college LGBTQ+ students on the US Mexico border, data was collected using semi-structured life-history interviews of three participants. This examination was framed in the theory of social identity and the theory of performativity. Findings were analyzed using a discourse analysis approach that highlights the meaning making of student experiences and their …

Healthcare Practices In The United States Aimed At Improving Care And Language Access Services For Limited English Proficiency Refugees: A Systematic Review, Bemnet Kebede

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Objective: The United States has accepted over 3 million refugees from all around the world since 1975. However, many Limited English Proficiency (LEP) refugees face significant barriers when seeking healthcare due to limited access, lack of knowledge, mistrust in physicians, language differences, cultural concerns, and overall complexity of the U.S. healthcare system. The purpose of this systematic review was to identify practices in the last 10 years that have improved healthcare and language access services for LEP refugees living in the U.S.

Methods: A search was conducted in four electronic databases PubMed, Embase, CINAHL, and Scopus from January 2013 to …

Evolving Expressions Of Trauma In James Joyce, Jean Rhys, And Caryl Phillips, Sean M. Mccray

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Evolving Expressions of Trauma articulates ways that dynamic, changing theories of trauma can provide a language and conceptual space to examine innovative modes and means of expression in Modernist novels and in later, post-colonial and experimental novels. This dissertation asserts that as trauma theory has expanded to encompass and describe different types of traumata, including the mundane, the insidious, and empathetic, it has provided a scaffolding for studying difficult, even impenetrable works from the Modernist period and beyond. The works examined here are strategically selected to demonstrate scope and particularity in the growth of trauma theories and their potential applications …

Multilingual Pantanal And Its Decay, Gustavo Godoy, Kristina Balykova

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

Historically, the Pantanal wetlands were inhabited by diverse ethnicities belonging to various linguistic groups, including Bororoan, Arawakan, Tupian, Gauicuruan, and Zamucoan, as well as some isolates and unclassified languages. Numerous ethnic groups disappeared without leaving any records of their languages, leaving behind only a list of ethnonyms. A point of confluence of different peoples that also circulated in other major South American areas, the Pantanal was a place with high linguistic diversity. Trade networks surrounded and permeated the area, as described in the earliest accounts by Portuguese and Spanish colonizers. As Indigenous groups were affected by colonial disputes over labor …

Stakeholder Perceptions Of Community Garden Features, Samantha Trajcevski

Content presented at the Roesch Social Sciences Symposium

The presentation discusses the study currently being conducted on stakeholder perceptions and attitudes towards greenspaces. This is completed through the identification of different uses and features to maximize use of the space and stakeholder engagement in the community garden. To better understand stakeholder opinions, we utilized a creative qualitative research method combining photovoice and interviews/focus groups. We conducted eight in-depth semi-structured interviews and four focus groups. Multiple interviewees agreed that the Dayton View Triangle lacks access to a green space. Most believed that a garden would offer social cohesion. Understandably, most participants were concerned about who would manage the garden …

Stuart Robson (Editor And Translator), "Kidung Pañji Margasmara; A Middle Javanese Romance (By Kĕmuling Rat Dyah Atapêng Raje)", Peter Worsley

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

No abstract provided.

A Personal And Poetic Inquiry Into Dutch Coloniality, Joel E. Berends

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

The following personal and poetic inquiry examines Indonesian objects, art, and cultural expressions through the lensing of coloniality (A. Benítez Rojo 1992; A. Quijano and M. Ennis 2000; W.D. Mignolo 2011). The inquiry interacts with the objects, art, and cultural expressions through the creation of ekphrastic poetry – poems which describe works of art. Specifically, this inquiry examines my experiences with Dutch coloniality as a white cisgendered man with a Dutch heritage/inheritance who was born and raised in a predominantly Dutch immigrant community in West Michigan in the United States. Building from the work of Gloria Wekker and given my …

Borobudur Temple And The Megalith Villages Of The Ngadha And Manggarai In The Light Of Indonesia’S Tourist Promotion; A Legacy Of Colonial Representation, Tular Sudarmadi

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

As a foreign exchange earner for the Indonesian government, the tourism industry has currently prioritized ten tourist destinations. Problematically, this promotion of the beauty and diversity of nature and ethnicty marginalizes and exoticizes a number of ethnic group and their areas. This promotion, which can be traced back to colonial times, still reflects the Dutch colonial legacy, particularly Darwinian social evolution. To clarify this situation, this article illustrates tourism promotion in the historical and socio-cultural contexts of Borobodur in Java and the megalith villages of the Ngadha and Manggarai people of Flores. It investigates the representation and articulation of colonial …

"In Memoriam", Victoria Maria Clara Van Groenendael, Dick Van Der Meij

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

No abstract provided.

"Gawe Kuta Baluwarti Bata Kalawan Kawis"; Contribution Of Local Knowledge To The Expansion Of The Banten Sultanate On The Nusantara Spice Route, Rismawidiawati Rismawidiawati, Wuri Handoko, Roni Tabroni, Abd. Rahman Hamid, Muh. Subair

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

So far, the trade and spice route historiography has focused on social, political, and economic aspects. This discussion is also fragmentarily or is part of another focus. No studies have discussed the relationship between local knowledge practices, spice routes, power networks, and Islamization. However, the spice trade and Islamization are two intersecting events important for their connection with the local culture. This article assumes that there was a local knowledge used as a strategy by the Banten rulers as a response to trade, Islamization, and power networks in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It finds that Sultan Maulana Yusuf’s policy, …

Islands, Maps, And Lontara’; Bugis Counter-Mapping On A Nineteenth-Century Map Of Nusantara, Aditya Bayu Perdana, Muhammad Buana

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

This article focuses on a Bugis nautical chart of Nusantara (the Malay Archipelago) from the early nineteenth century known as the Utrecht Map. There are only a few surviving copies of similar Bugis maps, all confiscated from local “pirates” during the colonial era. While graphical elements of the map undoubtedly point to prototypical European maps, careful analysis of its annotations reveals extensive linguistic modification better to reflect Bugis maritime knowledge. Not only are they completely written in Lontara’, the indigenous script of the Bugis, Euro-centric toponyms from contemporaneous maps are consistently replaced by locally derived toponyms from an oral and …

Melacak Pengetahuan Yang Terpinggirkan: Analisis Teori Standpoint Dalam Kebijakan Food Estate Di Kalimantan, Fajar Yudha Sentana, Fristian Hadinata

Multikultura

Krisis pangan dunia merupakan persoalan dunia yang belum terselesaikan oleh berbagai organisasi yang menaruh perhatian terhadap isu tersebut. Ditambah lagi, pandemi Covid-19 menjadi variabel yang memperburuk krisis pangan dunia. Hal itu direspon oleh pemerintah Indonesia melalui kebijakan food estate di Kalimantan sebagai bagian dari Proyek Strategis Nasional 2020-2024 sebagai solusi dari krisis pangan dunia dan mengurangi kebergantungan impor pangan serta sebagai upaya untuk mencapai kedaulatan pangan. Food estate memiliki catatan sejarah kegagalan yang panjang dan menimbulkan banyak persoalan di Indonesia. Tentunya hal ini menjadi fenomena yang menarik untuk dianalisa menggunakan gagasan standpoint dari Sandra Harding. Gagasan ini mencoba membongkar praktik …

Penerapan Konsep Environment, Social And Governance Di Perusahaan Di Asia Timur, Chintya Hanindhitakirana Wirawan, Filia Filia

Multikultura

Studi ini melakukan penelitian mengenai konsep ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) yang diterapkan oleh perusahaan-perusahaan di wilayah Asia Timur dalam pengembangan teknologi berkelanjutan. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menganalisis penerapan konsep ESG dalam perusahaan di negara-negara Asia Timur serta menganalisis dampak penerapan konsep ESG dalam perusahaan di negara-negara Asia Timur. Studi ini menggunakan data kualitatif yang diperoleh melalui sumber-sumber kajian pustaka dari buku, jurnal, dan artikel dalam situs web. Hasil penelitian ini adalah negara-negara di Asia Timur memiliki perusahaan dengan penerapan konsep ESG yang baik. Hal ini dapat dibuktikan dengan dampak positif yang mereka berikan bagi dunia internasional. Hal …

Kosakata Bahasa Arab Laras Permainan Daring Dalam Gim Mobile Legends Bang Bang Sebuah Analisis Morfo-Semantik, Ibrahim M. Akadji, Basuni Imamuddin

Multikultura

Permainan daring saat ini sangat digemari oleh semua kalangan usia, salah satunya adalah gim Mobile Legends: Bang Bang. Gim ini telah dimainkan oleh jutaan pemain dari seluruh dunia. Oleh karena itu gim Mobile Legends: telah diterjemahkan ke dalam berbagai bahasa di dunia, salah satunya adalah bahasa Arab. Penelitian ini akan menjelaskan kosakata bahasa Arab laras permainan daring yang digunakan dalam gim Mobile Legends: Bang Bang dengan analisis morfologi dan semantiknya. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif deskriptif dengan data dikumpulkan berupa kosakata bahasa Arab laras permainan daring yang digunakan dalam gim Mobile Legends: Bang Bang. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menganalisis …

Aksesori Sebagai Identitas Etnik Suku Berber Di Maroko, Muhammad Khairul Febriyanto, Suranta Suranta

Multikultura

Artikel ini membahas mengenai aksesori sebagai identitas etnik. Suku Berber mempunyai berbagai macam jenis akseoris yang menjadi identitas etnik mereka yakni permadani, perhiasan, pakaian, dan tato. Artikel ini hanya membahas tentang permadani dan perhiasan suku Berber. Suku Berber mempunyai permadani yang khas. Permadani suku Berber memiliki banyak kegunaan yaitu sebagai selimut, alas untuk berkuda, alas untuk shalat dan berbagai hal lainnya. Selain itu, permadani dapat dijadikan sebagai hadiah karena permadani dianggap sebagai identitas etnik yang mampu menunjukkan jati diri suku Berber. Suku Berber mempunyai berbagai macam perhiasan yang mereka pakai. Macam-macam perhiasan penting suku Berber terdiri dari kalung, ikat kepala, …

Inklusivitas Pemerintah Jerman Melalui Penggunaan Leichte Sprache Pada Laman Resmi Bundesregierung, Yulius Henry Purwanto, Sonya Puspasari Suganda

Multikultura

Diskriminasi terhadap kaum disabilitas masih sering ditemukan di dalam masyarakat, sehingga mendorong pemerintahan di seluruh dunia untuk mengambil langkah dalam mengatasinya. Penelitian ini membahas penggunaan bahasa yang disederhanakan (Leichte Sprache) dalam media sebagai upaya pemerintah Jerman untuk mendorong terciptanya inklusivitas. Data penelitian ini adalah informasi seputar wabah COVID-19 yang tertera di laman resmi pemerintah Jerman yaitu www.bundesregierung.de. Data dianalisis menggunakan teori analisis wacana kritis oleh Norman Fairclough. Dengan menggunakan metode kualitatif, penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menunjukkan upaya pemerintah Jerman dalam bersikap inklusif melalui bahasa, yaitu bagaimana bahasa yang digunakan di dalam laman itu juga dapat dipahami oleh para penyandang disabilitas …

Peran Gerakan Sosial Dalam Pengesahan Mariage Pour Tous Di Prancis, Melpa Tresia, Airin Miranda

Multikultura

Mariage Pour Tous (MPT) merupakan undang-undang pernikahan yang memperbolehkan semua orang tanpa memandang gender untuk menikah dan berkeluarga. Pada masa kampanye kepresidenan François Hollande, rencana untuk melegalkan pernikahan sesama jenis adalah salah satu janji yang memicu gerakan sosial baru untuk melakukan aksi kolektif. Gerakan sosial pendukung pernikahan sesama jenis merupakan contoh dari gerakan sosial baru. Hal tersebut dapat dilihat dari motif dan isu yang disuarakan berkaitan dengan hak-hak sipil di dalam lingkup sosial. Usaha yang dilakukan oleh gerakan sosial untuk menuntut persamaan hak sipil sudah dilakukan sejak Pacte Civil de Solidarité (PACS) dikeluarkan pada tahun 1999, tetapi janji kampanye Hollande …

Dark Tourism Di Hashima Pasca Penobatan Dalam World Heritage Unesco, Jemima Alma Sabila, Didit Dwi Subagio

Multikultura

Hashima (Gunkanjima) berhasil tercatat sebagai situs warisan dunia UNESCO pada tahun 2015. Pencatatan pulau ini sempat mendapat penolakan keras dari Korea Selatan karena Jepang tidak mencantumkan sejarah lengkap yang menyangkut kerja paksa warga Korea Selatan dan Tiongkok. Berdasarkan data pemerintah Nagasaki, Hashima mengalami lonjakan pengunjung lebih dari seratus ribu wisatawan setelah namanya tercatat dalam situs warisan dunia UNESCO. Sebelumnya, Hashima hanya dikenal akan dark tourism-nya sebagai pulau hantu, tetapi kini semakin dilirik wisatawan dengan imej yang berbeda setelah pencatatan UNESCO dan pembangunan lokasi wisata penunjang seperti Gunkanjima Digital Museum. Penelitian ini membahas mengenai dark tourism Hashima dan lokasi terkaitnya serta …

Diplomasi Teh Boba: Implementasi Gastrodiplomasi, Ghania Kendra Ardianti, Albert P. J. Roring

Multikultura

Adanya One China Policy yang menjadikan ruang gerak Taiwan dalam menjalin hubungan dengan negara lain semakin sulit. Soft power menjadi salah satu upaya diplomasi publik yang diambil oleh Taiwan untuk mempertegas status mereka. Melalui praktik gastrodiplomasi dengan teh boba, Taiwan berusaha untuk mengangkat status negaranya dalam kedudukan politik yang abu-abu. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah membuktikan bagaimana Taiwan menggunakan teh boba untuk menciptakan soft power dan menjadikannya sebagai identitas nasional. Penelitian ini ditulis dengan pendekatan kualitatif dengan analisis deskriptif yang menggunakan data sekunder melalui buku, artikel ilmiah, media massa, dan dokumen tertulis lainnya. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa Taiwan menggunakan pendekatan …

Kewarganegaraan Inklusif: Menempatkan Model Budaya Disabilitas Dalam Teori Multikultural Liberal Will Kymlicka, Hanandhia Lindsy Rustam, Lg. Saraswati Putri

Multikultura

Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk menggambarkan cultural model of disability atau model budaya disabilitas dalam teori multikultural liberal Will Kymlicka. Status kewarganegaraan disabilitas seringkali masih diturunkan menjadi kewarganegaraan pasif atau parsial yang patut dikasihani dan mendapat perhatian paternalistik. Kemunculan advokasi disabilitas sebagai hak kelompok dan bukan hak individu baru-baru ini menuntut kita untuk mengevaluasi secara lebih menyeluruh konsepsi disabilitas sebagai sebuah kelompok non-etnis namun bersifat budaya yang menegosiasikan tempat mereka di wilayah negara. Model budaya disabilitas inilah yang sejalan dengan tujuan teori multikultural liberal Will Kymlicka yang menyatakan bahwa masyarakat yang beragam membutuhkan lebih dari sekedar akses yang setara dan hak-hak …

Prinsip Harmoni (Héxié) Pada Penokohan Li Yunxiang Dalam Film Ne Zha Reborn (Xīnshén Bǎng: Nǎ Zhā Chóngshēng) Karya Zhao Ji, Chika Asri Oktaviyanti, Adi Kristina Wulandari, Rahadjeng Pulungsari Hadi

Multikultura

Film New Gods: Ne Zha Reborn (Xīnshén bǎng: Nǎ zhā chóngshēng新神榜：哪吒重生) adalah film animasi fantasi yang dirilis pada 12 Februari 2021, disutradarai Zhao Ji (赵霁). Film ini menceritakan tokoh Li Yunxiang yang merupakan sosok kelahiran kembali Ne Zha di masa modern dalam melawan musuhnya yaitu Klan Naga Laut Timur. Ne Zha adalah salah satu dewa dalam mitologi Cina yang ceritanya terdapat dalam novel zaman Dinasti Ming (1368-1644) berjudul Investiture of The Gods (Fēng shén yǎnyì封神演義). Penelitian ini bertujuan membaca representasi prinsip Harmoni (Héxié和谐) dalam konsep Yin-Yang melalui karakterisasi tokoh Li Yunxiang. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian adalah metode kualitatif. Hasil …

Preface Vol. 24 No. 3, Susi Moeimam

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

No abstract provided.

Introduction Locating Indonesia’S Cultural Archive; Towards Decolonial And Intersectional Histories Of Indonesia, Sadiah Boonstra, Caroline Drieënhuizen

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

No abstract provided.

Looking Back From The Periphery; Situating Indonesian Provincial Museums As Cultural Archives In The Late-Colonial To Post-Colonial Era, Adrian Perkasa, Ajeng Ayu Arainikasih

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Discussions on post-coloniality are often situated either in the centre of the colonizer or colonial metropole or the centre of the former colonized. The local perspective, especially in Indonesia, seems overlooked in existing literature, whereas it could be regarded as the cultural archive of the colonial era to post-independence Indonesia. Edward Said (1994) has said that cultural archives are a storehouse of a particular knowledge and structures of attitude and a reference to and structure of feelings. Gloria Wekker (2016) elaborates on the cultural archive; it has influenced historical cultural configurations as well as current dominant, cherished self-representations and culture. …

Marginalizing Colonial Violence At The Beginning Of The 21st Century The Representation Of Colonial Military Expedition To Banten Of 1808 In The National Museum Of Indonesia, Adieyatna Fajri

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

The article discusses the narrative of colonial violence attached to the objects displayed in the National Museum of Indonesia in Jakarta. Taking the colonial military expedition to Banten in 1808 as a case study, this paper analyses the exhibition to show the interplay between museum as a product of colonialism and its focus on regionalism, its role in post-colonial nation-state-formation promoting national identity building, and the complexities of addressing violence. It argues that, as the museum engages with the discourse of coloniality and concurrently emphasizes national identity building, it inadvertently marginalizes the narrative of colonial violence. The findings show that, …

Shifting The Historical Narrative Of The Banda Islands; From Colonial Violence To Local Resilience, Joëlla Van Donkersgoed

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

History is a representation of the past based on (written) knowledge which has been passed on from one generation to the next, with a preference given to written sources from a Eurocentric tradition. However, written sources about (former) colonial territories are a product of the colonial system in which they were produced. Acknowledging the biases in these archives, therefore, opens the way for acceptance of other forms of knowledge which were previously deemed “not objective” in Eurocentric historical disciplines. This paper presents several examples from the Banda Islands in Maluku province in Indonesia to attest that, by placing contemporary perceptions …

Exemplary Centre And "Terra Incognita"; Excursions, Diplomacy, And Appropriation Of Colonial Knowledge In Belu, Timor, Hans Hägerdal

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

The article analyses early European knowledge about Belu, a historical region in Central Timor which, although “belonging” mostly to the Dutch colonial sphere, still had a position of cultural-ritual centrality on a Timor-wide level. Before the mid-nineteenth century, the region was, from a Dutch point of view, largely unknown in terms of political hierarchies, social structure, and economic opportunities. However, three officially commissioned authors, A.G. Brouwer, W.L. Rogge, and H.J. Grijzen, wrote extensive reports about Belu in 1849, 1865, and 1904, in which they attempted to understand local society and the opportunities they offered the colonial state. The article explores …