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Toward Engagement In Climate Training: Findings From Interviews With Agricultural Extension Professionals, David C. Diehl, Nicole L. Sloan, Sebastian Galindo-Gonzalez, Wendy-Lin Bartels, Daniel R. Dourte, Carrie Furman, Clyde W. Fraisse Dec 2015

Toward Engagement In Climate Training: Findings From Interviews With Agricultural Extension Professionals, David C. Diehl, Nicole L. Sloan, Sebastian Galindo-Gonzalez, Wendy-Lin Bartels, Daniel R. Dourte, Carrie Furman, Clyde W. Fraisse

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

With scientific consensus regarding the occurrence of climate variability and climate change it is clear that farmers can benefit from science-based adaptation strategies for managing climate-related risk. To this end, cooperative extension professionals must engage in climate training events that are carefully planned and tailored to their specific needs. This study consisted of 50 interviews with extension professionals from four states (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina) and collected information about the perceptions of climate variability and change as well as the preferred approaches for climate-related training in extension. Results include the need for accessible, climate-related training that prepares extension …

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Community Leaders' Perspectives On Shale Development In The New Albany Shale, Ryan G. Ceresola, Jessica Crowe Dec 2015

Community Leaders' Perspectives On Shale Development In The New Albany Shale, Ryan G. Ceresola, Jessica Crowe

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

Shale development, which uses the controversial energy extraction technique of hydraulic fracturing, is on the rise in America, with industries recently investigating the New Albany shale play in southern Illinois and western Kentucky. We ask: what do community leaders in this region think about shale development generally, and how do they come to their decisions? To answer these questions, we interviewed eighteen community leaders, twelve of whom were proponents of shale development. We show proponents speak on shale development as a positive by claiming 1) any jobs are beneficial for the community, 2) shale development is not different from other …

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The Impact Of The Farmers' Market Nutrition Program On Participating Florida Farmers: A Research Note, Nicole Owens, Amy Donley Dec 2015

The Impact Of The Farmers' Market Nutrition Program On Participating Florida Farmers: A Research Note, Nicole Owens, Amy Donley

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

The Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program (FMNP) is a federally funded program designed to increase fresh fruit and vegetable consumption among WIC participants. Research to date has examined the effectiveness of this program in reaching that goal. The current study measures the impact this program is having on some farmers that participate in the program. Farmers are an overlooked group that not only must agree to participate for programs like this to be successful but also are often living below the poverty line as are their customers. Using survey data collected by the Florida Department of …

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A New Imperialism? Evaluating Russia’S Acquisition Of Crimea In The Context Of National And International Law, Trevor Mcdougal Dec 2015

A New Imperialism? Evaluating Russia’S Acquisition Of Crimea In The Context Of National And International Law, Trevor Mcdougal

BYU Law Review

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Taming Madison’S Monster: How To Fix Self-Execution Doctrine, David L. Sloss Dec 2015

Taming Madison’S Monster: How To Fix Self-Execution Doctrine, David L. Sloss

BYU Law Review

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Luo’S Ethical Experience Of Growth In Mo Yan's Pow!, Zhenzhao Nie Dec 2015

Luo’S Ethical Experience Of Growth In Mo Yan's Pow!, Zhenzhao Nie

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Luo's Ethical Experience of Growth in Mo Yan's Pow!" Zhenzhao Nie examines the protagonist's experience of self-discovery in the process of natural to ethical choice. Nie's analysis of the novel rests on the theoretical framework "ethical literary criticism" he developed. In the novel Luo's life is narrated in retrospect when he is attempting to become the disciple of a monk and al-though Luo does not find what he is searching for in religion, he arrives at a new stage in his life which is based on ethical principles. The young Luo is unable to make …

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Ethical Dilemma And Ethical Epiphany In Mcewan’S The Children Act, Biwu Shang Dec 2015

Ethical Dilemma And Ethical Epiphany In Mcewan’S The Children Act, Biwu Shang

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Ethical Dilemma and Ethical Epiphany in McEwan's The Children Act" Biwu Shang attempts to explore the ethical nature of the child's welfare in Ian McEwan's novel. Shang examines the various legal cases processed by the British High Court judge Fiona Maye and the blood transfusion case of Adam Henry in particular. Shang argues that Maye adopts ethical criteria throughout the cases she deals with. More significantly, Adam's blood transfusion case and his consequential death lead Maye to her ethical epiphany related to the child's welfare: life is the fundamental welfare of the child and to protect …

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Ethical Discourse And Narrative Strategies In Yan's老师，好美 (To My Teacher, With Love), Zhuo Wang Dec 2015

Ethical Discourse And Narrative Strategies In Yan's老师，好美 (To My Teacher, With Love), Zhuo Wang

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Ethical Discourse and Narrative Strategies in Yan's老师，好美 (To My Teacher, with Love)" Zhuo Wang discusses the way in which narrative converges with ethics at the site of a radical "ethical environment" in Geling Yan's novel. Wang focuses on how the novel's first-person confessional narration, third-person reflective narration, and online narration dialogue with and interrogate one another working together to bring forth Yan's reconsideration of the ethical dimensions of her text. Wang argues that the novel's personal and social ethics are embodied multiple narrative voices which altogether reflect on the close relationship between novels and ethical discourse …

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Narrative Ethics And Alterity In Adichie's Novel Americanah, Nora Berning Dec 2015

Narrative Ethics And Alterity In Adichie's Novel Americanah, Nora Berning

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Narrative Ethics and Alterity in Adichie's Novel Americanah" Nora Berning analyses Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel through the lens of a narrative ethics of alterity. Focusing on the notion of alterity, Berning argues that a specific turn-of-the-century ethics emerges in contemporary fictions of migration in general and in intercultural novels in particular. An ethical genre in its own right, such twenty-first century fictions as Americanah generate a particular kind of ethical knowledge that revolves around questions of identity and alterity and around individual and collective perceptions of self and other. By addressing the interplay of "the ethics …

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Perspectives Of Ethical Identity In Ng's Steer Toward Rock And Jen's Mona In The Promised Land, Hui Su Dec 2015

Perspectives Of Ethical Identity In Ng's Steer Toward Rock And Jen's Mona In The Promised Land, Hui Su

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Perspectives of Ethical Identity in Ng's Steer toward Rock and Jen's Mona in the Promised Land" Hui Su examines Fae Myenne Ng's and Gish Jen's novels. In the novels, the protagonists make different decisions: in Steer Toward Rock Jack after displacement in China adopts US-American identity and in Mona in the Promised Land Mona, a second generation Chinese American, selects Jewish identity. Owing to their different situations, the two protagonists reflect challenges of identity building in the case of the "Other" in US-American culture and society. Su argues that Ng and Jen, although varying in their …

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What Should The Restatement (Fourth) Say About Treaty Interpretation?, Jean Galbraith Dec 2015

What Should The Restatement (Fourth) Say About Treaty Interpretation?, Jean Galbraith

BYU Law Review

The Restatement (Second) and Restatement (Third) of the Foreign Relations Law took notably different approaches to treaty interpretation, reflecting intervening changes in the legal landscape. This symposium contribution identifies five developments in international and domestic law since the Restatement (Third). It then considers their import for the forthcoming Restatement (Fourth). Most importantly, it argues that the Restatement (Fourth) should fully incorporate two articles on treaty interpretation from the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties into its black-letter provisions. Since the time of the Restatement (Third), these articles have become central to international practice on treaty interpretation, and the principles …

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A Textual Approach To Treaty Non-Self-Execution, Michael D. Ramsey Dec 2015

A Textual Approach To Treaty Non-Self-Execution, Michael D. Ramsey

BYU Law Review

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Treaties And The Presumption Against Preemption, David H. Moore Dec 2015

Treaties And The Presumption Against Preemption, David H. Moore

BYU Law Review

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The Political Theory Of Treaties In The Restatements Of Foreign Relations Law, John T. Parry Dec 2015

The Political Theory Of Treaties In The Restatements Of Foreign Relations Law, John T. Parry

BYU Law Review

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The Proposed Restatement (Fourth) Of The Foreign Relations Law Of The United States: Treaties—Some Serious Procedural And Substantive Concerns, Leila Nadya Sadat Dec 2015

The Proposed Restatement (Fourth) Of The Foreign Relations Law Of The United States: Treaties—Some Serious Procedural And Substantive Concerns, Leila Nadya Sadat

BYU Law Review

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Constraining Charming Betsy: Textual Ambiguity As A Predicate To Applying The Charming Betsy Doctrine, Andrew H. Bean Dec 2015

Constraining Charming Betsy: Textual Ambiguity As A Predicate To Applying The Charming Betsy Doctrine, Andrew H. Bean

BYU Law Review

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Pengaruh Metode Latihan Drill Dan Waktu Reaksi Terhadap Ketepatan Drive Dalam Permainan Tenis Meja, Nur Moh Kusuma Atmaja, Tomoliyus Tomoliyus Dec 2015

Pengaruh Metode Latihan Drill Dan Waktu Reaksi Terhadap Ketepatan Drive Dalam Permainan Tenis Meja, Nur Moh Kusuma Atmaja, Tomoliyus Tomoliyus

Jurnal Keolahragaan

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui: (1) perbedaan pengaruh metode latihan drill umpan konstan dan metode latihan drill umpan berubah-ubah terhadap ketepatan pukulan drive tenis meja; (2) perbedaan ketepatan pukulan drive tenis meja antara atlet yang mempunyai waktu reaksi tinggi dan rendah; (3) pengaruh interaksi antara metode drill dan waktu reaksi terhadap ketepatan pukulan drive tenis meja. Jenis penelitian ini adalah eksperimen dengan rancangan faktorial 2 x 2. Populasi peneliti-an ini adalah atlet pemula usia 8-12 tahun. Sampel penelitian ini 28 atlet yang diambil dengan teknik random sampling. Teknik analisis data yang digunakan adalah Analisis Varian (ANAVA) dua jalur yang …

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Pengembangan Tes Keterampilan Olahraga Woodball Untuk Pemula, Putu Citra Permana Dewi, Sukadiyanto Sukadiyanto Dec 2015

Pengembangan Tes Keterampilan Olahraga Woodball Untuk Pemula, Putu Citra Permana Dewi, Sukadiyanto Sukadiyanto

Jurnal Keolahragaan

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengembangkan: (1) tes keterampilan olahraga woodball untuk pemula yang valid, (2) mengembangkan tes keterampilan olahraga woodball untuk pemula yang reliabel, dan (3) norma penilaian tes keterampilan olahraga woodball untuk pemula. Penelitian dan pengembangan ini terdiri dari enam langkah kegiatan, yaitu: identifikasi kebutuhan, analisis pengembangan produk, menulis tujuan kinerja, mengembangkan instrumen penilaian, merancang dan mengevaluasi produk, serta merevisi produk. Uji coba penelitian dilakukan di Klub Woodball Buleleng, Bali dan Klub Woodball Jepara, Jawa Tengah berjumlah 37 atlet pemula. Validasi produk didapat dari uji validasi konstruk menggunakan inter-items correlations dan uji validitas kriterium dengan mengorelasikan data hasil tes …

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Identifikasi Bakat Olahraga Panahan Pada Siswa Sekolah Dasar Di Kabupaten Manokwari, Nikanor Asaribab, Siswantoyo Siswantoyo Dec 2015

Identifikasi Bakat Olahraga Panahan Pada Siswa Sekolah Dasar Di Kabupaten Manokwari, Nikanor Asaribab, Siswantoyo Siswantoyo

Jurnal Keolahragaan

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengungkap bakat siswa sekolah dasar (SD) pada cabang olahraga panahan di Kabupaten Manokwari. Penelitian ini termasuk penelitian deskriptif. Metode yang digunakan adalah survei. Populasi penelitian ini adalah siswa SD negeri dan swasta di Kabupaten Manokwari. Penentuan sampel menggunakan teknik purposive sampling dengan kriteria: (1) SD negeri dan swasta unggulan (panahan), (2) siswa yang mengikuti program pembinaan panahan Indosat, (3) sampel berjumlah 160 anak yang terdiri dari 80 laki-laki dan 80 anak perempuan, (4) siswa yang bersedia menjadi sampel dengan mengisi surat pernyataan. Pengambilan data dilakukan dengan tes dan pengukuran, yang meliputi: kekuatan otot perut (sit-up/minute), …

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Model Tes Fisik Pencarian Bakat Olahraga Bulutangkis Usia Di Bawah 11 Tahun Di Diy, Utvi Hinda Zhannisa, Fx. Sugiyanto Dec 2015

Model Tes Fisik Pencarian Bakat Olahraga Bulutangkis Usia Di Bawah 11 Tahun Di Diy, Utvi Hinda Zhannisa, Fx. Sugiyanto

Jurnal Keolahragaan

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengembangkan model tes fisik pencarian bakat cabang olahraga bulutangkis usia di bawah 11 tahun. Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian R and D (Research and Development). Dalam penelitian pengembangan ini, langkah-langkah yang harus ditempuh meliputi: (1) studi pendahuluan (studi pustaka dan studi lapangan), (2) perencanaan (melakukan analisis), (3) desain draft awal, (4) validasi draft (5) ujcoba produk kelompok kecil dan revisi, (6) uji coba kelompok besar dan revisi, (7) hasil akhir. Validitas menggunakan validitas isi, reliabilitas menggunakan test retest Conbrach's Alpha dan Z skor untuk menyamakan satuan. Uji reliabilitas diperoleh hasil (a) tes kelentukan (sit …

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Wartawan Dan Budaya Amplop (Budaya Amplop Pada Wartawan Pendidikan Dalam Kaitannya Dengan Media Relations), Adhianty Nurjanah, Wulan Widyasari, Frizki Yulianti Yulianti Dec 2015

Wartawan Dan Budaya Amplop (Budaya Amplop Pada Wartawan Pendidikan Dalam Kaitannya Dengan Media Relations), Adhianty Nurjanah, Wulan Widyasari, Frizki Yulianti Yulianti

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Journalists play an important role as the fourth pillar of democracy. Doing so, journalists should be independent and separated from outside interference. This independence is not only applied to the relationship of journalistandthe government, but also applied to the relationship of journalists and news sources such as higher education institutions. In obtaining the proclamation of higher education institutions, journalists often intersect with public relations practitioners who also perform the task of media relations to gain publicity. This study aims to determine how to deal with the envelope cultureof journalists conducted by public relations practitioners of higher education institutions in …

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Model Communication Enggagement Dalam Komunikasi Politik Calon Legislatif Dalam Pemilu Umum 2014, Zen Amirudin Dec 2015

Model Communication Enggagement Dalam Komunikasi Politik Calon Legislatif Dalam Pemilu Umum 2014, Zen Amirudin

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Partai Kebangkitan Bangsa (PKB) Blitar in the general elections in 2014 gained nine seats compare to seven seats at previous election. The success caused due to synergistic communication engagements between political parties supporters such as Nahdlatul Ulama, Muslimat, Ansor Youth Movement and others. Meanwhile, during the campaign period, political communication of PKB Blitar candicate focus on: image building of candicate, campaign process, and communication media.
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Partai Kebangkitan Bangsa di Kabupaten Blitar dalam pemilihan umum 2014 telah berhasil memperoleh 9 kursi. Jumlah tersebut meningkat lebih banyak jika di bandingkan periode sebelumnya yang mendapatkan tujuh kursi. Faktor utama peningkatan kursi …

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Implementasi Teori Komunikasi Sosial Budaya Dalam Pembangunan Integrasi Bangsa, Suranto Aw Dec 2015

Implementasi Teori Komunikasi Sosial Budaya Dalam Pembangunan Integrasi Bangsa, Suranto Aw

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Development is a process that is carried out continuously in a region over time. Development leads the improvement of the lives and well-being, both in terms of material and nonmaterial. To Indonesia, the development process is a planned activity to achieve national goals as mandated in the 1945 Constitution, which among others, to promote the general welfare, united, sovereign, fair, and prosperous. Indicators of well-being are not just limited to the economic aspect and materialistic, but also concerning aspects of harmony, unity, and integration of national life in dignity characterized by solidarity excellence. So that it is needed to …

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Interaksi Simbolik Santri Pondok Pesantren Al-Amin Pabuaran Purwokerto, Siti Machmiyah Dec 2015

Interaksi Simbolik Santri Pondok Pesantren Al-Amin Pabuaran Purwokerto, Siti Machmiyah

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In this life, human need to interact with other people for accomplishing social needs. Without communication, human, can't interact. Santri (student at traditional Muslim School) also need to have interaction with others. Santri is designation for a person who lives in Islamic Boarding House and study about religiousness. This research tries to explain about santri's stigma and symbols use by santri. From this research, it can be inferred that: there are 2 Stigmas that attached in santri, they are physical stigma (it's about santri's attributes and clothes) and positive social stigma; There are numbers of symbols dealing with verbal …

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Marjinalisasi (Publik) Aktivis Dalam Literatur Public Relations, Nurhidayati Kusumaningtyas Dec 2015

Marjinalisasi (Publik) Aktivis Dalam Literatur Public Relations, Nurhidayati Kusumaningtyas

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Activism can involve an individual or a collection of a few people. The practice of activism is often perceived as negative and destructive actions. In the literature of public relations, we will discover how the activist group pressure group categorized into the "source of trouble" and must be addressed by public relations practitioners. This perspective led to a bias that leads to marginalization of "activist public" in public relations literature. Marginalization process lasts through two methods: (1) the provision of which tend negative stigma, (2) the dominance of the paradigm of "corporate centric" in the literature of public relations. …

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Peran Teknologi Komunikasi Dalam Interaksi Ayah Dan Anak Studi Kasus: Interaksi Ayah Dan Anak Melalui Smartphone, Detania Savitri Dec 2015

Peran Teknologi Komunikasi Dalam Interaksi Ayah Dan Anak Studi Kasus: Interaksi Ayah Dan Anak Melalui Smartphone, Detania Savitri

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Function of a father is to support the finance of his family, while the mother functions as a nurturer for the child. A father that works full time will have his interaction with his child diminished. On the other side, communication technology has been developed to facilitate the interaction of individuals. This research aims to uncover if smartphones can increase the intensity and closeness of interaction between father and his children. Also, this research aims to know if fathers can socialize on his children through smartphones by controlling daily activities of the children. This article uses functionalism perspective. The …

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Transformasi Selebriti Menjadi Politisi: Urgensi Personal Front Dalam Ranah Sosial, Manzilatun Ni'mah Dec 2015

Transformasi Selebriti Menjadi Politisi: Urgensi Personal Front Dalam Ranah Sosial, Manzilatun Ni'mah

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This article aims to analyze the recent phenomenon of celebrities' transformation entering political arena using Bourdieu's habitus, field, and social capital theoritical framework and the role of mass media to shine celebrities as stars in the entertainment field which they use impression management to preserve their position. The subjects are Desy Ratnasari and Angel Lelga, the two phenomenal artists who recently transform to political field. This article is using qualitative approach with descriptive case study. Using Bourdieu's habitus theoritical framework, this article will begin with the explanation of habitus change from Desy Ratnasari and Angel Lelga before entering entertainment …

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Hiperrealitas Dalam Social Media (Studi Kasus: Makan Cantik Di Senopati Pada Masyarakat Perkotaan), Herlinda Fitria Dec 2015

Hiperrealitas Dalam Social Media (Studi Kasus: Makan Cantik Di Senopati Pada Masyarakat Perkotaan), Herlinda Fitria

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This study reviews the phenomenon of eating in restaurants that recently came out as a new lifestyle known as "makan cantik" (aesthetic eating). This lifestyle is currently trending among young people, especially those in the urban areas such as Jakarta. This study uses qualitative methods to observe and describe makan cantik as a hyperreality on social media, constructed through simulation. Makan cantik is done with an intention of broadcasting the activity through social media. Makan cantik is a simulation that is intentionally constructed to present certain image, such that represents the upper class society. Beneath what's been presented in …

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Peran Media Massa Nasional Dalam Politik Internasional, Nita Andrianti Dec 2015

Peran Media Massa Nasional Dalam Politik Internasional, Nita Andrianti

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In international politics, the mass media is not only a source of political information but also trigger the occurrence of political change. In general, the mass media has a specific tendency for reporting international coverage of the political events. In short, the media has a major role in the international political communication. Active involvement of the media have spawned the term "media diplomacy", the mass media as a channel in a diplomatic mission of a state against another state. As "media diplomacy", the mass media not only report diplomatic events, but also act as negosiator.Related to the media diplomacy …

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Wacana Kemadjoean Di Kelompok Etnis Sunda Awal Abad 20, Holy Rafika Dhona Dec 2015

Wacana Kemadjoean Di Kelompok Etnis Sunda Awal Abad 20, Holy Rafika Dhona

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Kemadjoean (progress) was a key term for all social movement in the early 20th century Dutch East Indies. This article argued that the discourse of progress has no single meaning throughout the Dutch East Indies, but instead, it was practiced differently by people from different cultural communities. This article focuses on how the discourse of progress was negotiated by the Sundanese ethnic group. Using Foucauldian discourse analysis on the texts of Papaes Nonoman Newspaper (1914-1917), this studi found that, besides being interpreted as "an attempt to become Dutch", the notion of progress was understood by the Sundanese specifically as …

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