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Analysis Of Irrigation Development In Economic Welfare Of Farmers In Tanjung Keriahan Village Langkat Regency
Authors: Ryansyah M , Yafiz Muhammad
Published: May 2022

The agricultural sector is the main sector for the economy of most developing countries, including Indonesia. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the agricultural sector remained the mainstay sector, because it was able to survive during the pandemic, while many other sectors experienced setbacks. And infrastructure plays an important role in driving the wheels of economic growth and development. The purpose of this study was to determine how the impact of the construction of irrigation networks on the welfare of farmers. The research method used is desk study. This research data uses secondary data sourced from books, journals, articles and the internet. The results showed that the construction of irrigation networks was very beneficial for farmers. Because it can increase the intensity of planting in the fields. Increasing cropping intensity in paddy fields will have implications for increasing farmer productivity. So that it is expected to increase the income of rice farmers which in turn will be able to improve welfare.
clinic-radiological comparative study to evaluate of hard & soft tissue changes around dental implants placed with platelet rich fibrin in type-2 diabetic patients with varying glycemic levels
Authors: Yadav Rajendra , Deo Vikas , Garg Rakesh
Published: May 2022

Background: Periodontitis is considered the "sixth complication" of diabetes and tooth loss is its inevitable result. Various studies have shown the prevalence of tooth loss to be more in diabetic patients. Poor glycemic levels have shown to affect the osseointegration of dental implants in diabetics, thus this study aimed to evaluate the regenerative and anti-inflammatory effects of Platelet rich Fibrin (PRF) on the peri-implant soft and hard tissue around dental implants in type 2 DM patients with varying glycemic levels. Materials & Methods: The study was conducted on patients who presented with a complain of missing tooth and required replacement of dentition with endosseous implants at department of periodontis at Rajasthan Dental College & Hospital, Jaipur, Rajasthan. A total of 20 implant sites were selected in 8 patients with age range of 20-65 years. Statistical analysis was carried out using Student t-test’ to compare soft tissue evaluation scores and crestal bone loss in both the group. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was carried out to evaluate the significance between the test and control groups at baseline, 6 and 9 months.
To evaluate the crestal bone loss in mandibular implant overdenture via locator and ball socket attachments
Authors: Madhav Madhav , Sahoo Sukant , Gupta Aakarshan Dayal , Sharma Yukti , Sharma Aparana , Arafath Shaik
Published: May 2022

Edentulism is a debilitating and irreversible condition and is described as final marker of disease burden for oral health. Rehabilitating edentulous  patients with residual ridge resorption has improved  tremendously because of Implant dentistry . Aims and Objectives: To evaluate the crestal bone loss in mandibular implant over denture via locator and ballsocket attachments: An In - Vivo study. Material and method: This study was undertaken in the Department of Prosthodontics and Crown &Bridge Methodology • According to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, twenty subjects were selected for this study. OPG radiographs were recorded for each subject. They were divided into two groups: Group A and Group B. • Group A subjects (10) received ball and socket retained mandibular implant overdenture against a maxillary complete denture with ball diameter of 2.25mm and gingival height of 3mm while Group B subjects (10) received locator retained mandibular implant overdenture. Results The result obtained was subject to comparison by ANOVA statistical analysis. It was found that for ball and socket attachment, highest crestal bone was observed on the mesial aspect of the right implant followed by the distal aspect of the same implant.
To evaluate and compare the effect of stresses in peri implant bone after offset placement of implant in edentulous posterior mandible using
Authors: Meenakshi Meenakshi , Sahoo Sukant , Sharma Yukti , Sharma Aparana , Pooja Pooja , Shreysha Shreysha
Published: May 2022

Background: In the present era, when it comes to oral rehabilitation, a wide array of options are available to restore missing teeth using fixed and removable prostheses, however, advances in dental implant surgery offer viable option to provide improved functional efficiency, appearance, comfort and speech2 . The desired position of the artificial teeth is determined by aesthetic and functional requirements. Lack of bone volume always results in exposure of implant surface, reduced bone implant contact and finally implant failure. Aim: The aim of this study is to evaluate and compare the effect of stresses in peri implant bone after offset placement of implant in edentulous posterior mandible using: - “3D finite element analysis (FEA).” Objectives: 1. To evaluate the effect of stresses in peri implant bone after offset placement of  dental implant using 3D finite element analysis. 2. To analyze the stress distribution patterns in the implant and the peri implant bone interface. 3. To evaluate and compare the stress in peri implant bone after placing the implant in different implant configurations – straight and offset.
Firm Characteristics and Working Capital Financing Adopted by Non-Financial Firms Listed at Nairobi Securities Exchange, Kenya
Authors:   Kenyatta University, Kirugumi Gitonga Jason
Published: May 2022

The working capital requirement is critical to any organization. However, the working capital of numerous non-financial firms listed at NSE has been negative. Thus, the study examined the influence of firm characteristics on working capital financing. Precisely, the study examined the influence of firm size, asset tangibility, profitability and leverage on working capital financing. Five theories, namely, Baumol design, pecking order theory, trade-off concept, economies of scale theory and profit maximization theory, informed the study. The study employed an explanatory research design. The target population were 45 non-financial firms listed at NSE. The study carried out a census of all the firms. The research collected secondary panel data. The study period was between 2015 and 2019. The results from the model fitness showed that firm size (log of total assets), asset tangibility, profitability (ROA) and leverage explain 64.70% of the variations in the working capital financing of the non-financial firms. The correlation results showed that firm size measured through the log of total assets, asset tangibility and profitability were positively associated with working capital financing. In contrast, leverage was found to be negatively associated with working capital financing. The regression results showed that firm size, asset tangibility and profitability have a significant positive effect on working capital financing. However, the regression results revealed that leverage has a significant negative effect on working capital financing. The study recommended non-financial firms listed at NSE look for strategies that increase their assets. Enormous firms are expected to be more financially stable with more investments, thus reducing borrowing. In addition, the firms should look for ways to increase asset tangibility. The firms can invest in more assets such as plant and equipment, buildings, computer equipment, software, furniture, land, machinery, and vehicles. Moreover, the non-financial firms listed at NSE to look for strategies to reduce the leverage levels. External funding of the operations, such as debts, should be used if all the other internal financing options are exhausted. Keywords: Firm size, asset tangibility, profitability, leverage, working capital financing, non-financial firms listed at NSE, Kenya
Effect of Umwalimu SACCO Services on Socio-Economic Development of Teachers in Rwanda
Authors:   Mount Kenya University, Dieu Hagenimana Jean de
Published: May 2022

The services provided Umwalimu SACCO in Rwanda play a significant role in improvement of living standard of teachers. Hence, the study sought to determine the relationship between Umwalimu SACCO and Socio-economic development of teachers in Rusizi district in Rwanda. Correlation research design was employed. The population of study consisted of 2503 teachers and staff of the UMWALIMU SACCO Rusizi district branch. The sample size was (98) determined by using the Yamane’s formula. Questionnaires, interview guides and documentary reviews were utilized as primary and secondary data collection instruments. The study findings revealed that the majority of respondents (97.95%) stated that their income increased after getting loan from UMWALIMU SACCO Rusizi district. 47.95% strongly agreed that small projects have improved their children's schooling and 46.93% strongly agreed that small businesses have improved children's access to education, have been able to pay for health insurance and have improved their access to food security because of income received from their businesses. It was found there is a is high correlation between UMWALIMU SACCO services (Credit Provision, Savings, business loans, -housing loans, -Small project loans, Savings platform-SACCO services) and socio-economic development of teachers (Increase of income, education facilities, food security, building houses, increased household savings). The Pearson correlation(r) coefficient was 0.787 with a P-value of 0.000. The study recommended the management of Umwalimu SACCO should create awareness campaigns, increase loans to their customers and train them on how to start small projects. The government and development partners should create a strong supportive policy framework, increasing public awareness and understanding of micro insurance at both regulator and other stakeholder’s levels, and building strong strategic partnerships and alliances. Moreover, the members of Umwalimu SACCO and teachers should also work hand in hand with the managerial staff to improve the services offered in their institution. Keywords: Umwalimu SACCO, Socio-economic development, teachers and cooperative, Rwanda
O ensino do movimento retilíneo uniforme e do movimento uniformemente variado utilizando atividades experimentais de baixo custo
Authors: Santos Gabriela Ferreira , Rodrigues Clóves Gonçalves
Published: May 2022

Neste artigo foram propostos dois roteiros de experimentos didáticos com materiais de fácil acesso e de baixo custo para o ensino de cinemática, em especial sobre os tópicos de Movimento Retilíneo Uniforme (MRU) e Movimento Retilíneo Uniformemente Acelerado (MUV). Os roteiros apresentam os objetivos do experimento, os materiais utilizados e os procedimentos de construção dos aparelhos a serem utilizados nos experimentos. O intuito dos experimentos foram os de proporcionar o entendimento das características destes movimentos (MRU e MUV) e compreender os conceitos de velocidade uniforme e aceleração. Escolheram-se experimentos que são viáveis para aplicação imediata em sala de aula e de fácil reprodução pelo leitor.
Reflexões sobre o currículo de ensino dos internos do iases: rumo a emancipação ou subalternização?
Authors: De Arruda Gisele
Published: May 2022

O aumento de adolescentes que ingressam no sistema socioeducativo para cumprimento de medida de internação é uma realidade que é oriunda de vários fatores e em especial a desigualdade social. No estado do Espírito Santo os adolescentes infratores são atendidos pelo Instituto de Atendimento Socioeducativo do ES - IASES. Observando que a maior parte dos internos apresentam defasagem na escolaridade e a oferta de ensino na modalidade EJA (Ensino de Jovens e Adultos) se torna irregular não atendendo as necessidades dos mesmos; urge refletir sobre a proposta de currículo que é ofertada aos alunos das unidades de internação partindo do pressuposto de que o mesmo não é neutro ou desinteressado. Considerando a situação de marginalização e estigmatização o artigo realiza indagações sobre a diversidade e a inclusão pensada no prisma da exclusão a qual esses socioeducandos estão inseridos. Será que estão sendo observadas as condições desses sujeitos para se elaborar um currículo que proporcione a emancipação por meio da reflexão de toda essa gama de dificuldades? Ou por justamente estarem nessa condição o currículo se mantém na perspectiva do mero repasse de conteúdo, mantendo a subalternidade? O estudo utilizou entrevista com o gestor da Gerência Pedagógica do IASES e também bibliografias baseadas em referenciais teóricos críticos da educação a fim de buscar subsídios para tais questões. Embora a oferta de ensino para os adolescentes infratores não seja favorável a emancipação; o estudo observou que há um esforço por parte do Instituto em estabelecer propostas de trabalho para mudar esse cenário.
Indicadores de Burnout em professores do ensino fundamental que atuam em salas com inserção de alunos com deficiência
Authors: Da Silva Nilson Rogério , Corrêa Keity Cristina , Silva Meire Luci
Published: May 2022

As condições de trabalho desgastantes, a intensificação do ritmo de trabalho, o aumento de atribuições, as cobranças e ameaças de desemprego favorecem adoecimento de professores, com destaque para transtornos mentais, como o Burnout. O presente estudo teve o objetivo de caracterizar a prevalência de Burnout em professores do ensino fundamental, de salas com a inserção de alunos com deficiência. Amostra composta por 42 professores de segunda a quinta série, em salas com alunos com deficiência de escolas públicas municipais de um município do interior de São Paulo. Para a coleta de dados foram utilizados um questionário de caracterização sociodemográfica dos professores e o Inventário da Síndrome de Burnout – ISB. Os resultados revelaram que a idade média foi de 42 anos, todos do gênero feminino, a maioria casada, com carga horária de trabalho semanal de até 30 horas e com média de 23 alunos por sala. Identificada prevalência de Burnout em 21,4% das professoras e, observou-se que 38% apresentaram distanciamento emocional, 31% exaustão emocional, 9,5% desumanização e realização pessoal. Os dados revelaram a necessidade de medidas de prevenção e manutenção da saúde dos professores, bem como para evitar impactos na aprendizagem dos alunos.
Research on the Development and Prospect of Companion Economy
Authors: Sun Yuan
Published: May 2022

Loneliness and anxiety are common emotional types of human beings. The companion economy around these two emotions includes many industries, and has formed a preliminary scale and classification in China at present. Based on the latest population survey results and related economic and industrial information in China, this paper studies the development course and future trend of companion economy, focusing on its characteristics and causes. companion economy has the characteristics of inevitability, sustainability and pluralism; Its consumers are mainly concentrated in young people, old people and single people. In the future, it will continue to tilt towards the service industry, showing an intelligent, personalized and industrialized development trend. Grasping the development opportunity of the companion economy can effectively establish a new market mechanism, promote the supply-side structural reform and build a new double-cycle development pattern.
Effect Analysis and Policy Suggestions of Value-added Tax Credit Refund Taking Advanced Manufacturing Industry in Anhui Province as an Example
Authors: Yang Xiaoqing , Hou Yuru , Huang Jingyuan , Jia Qilong , Zhou Zejiong
Published: May 2022

In recent years, under the policy background of "tax reduction and fee reduction", the retention tax rebate system has become one of the hotspots of value-added tax reform. This year's "government work report" further proposed to carry out large-scale tax rebate on the tax retention and credit, greatly digest the stock tax retention and credit, and focus on supporting the advanced manufacturing industry. As the highlight of the combined tax support policy, it provides strong support for stabilizing the macro-economic market. Based on the industry development and data of advanced manufacturing industry in Anhui Province in recent years, this paper makes a reliable analysis on the impact of VAT credit refund on advanced manufacturing industry, analyzes the effect of VAT credit refund, and puts forward practical policy suggestions according to the research results.
Research on the Evaluation of Digital Village Development Readiness Taking Changfeng County as an Example
Authors: Meng Hao , Chen Xiwang , Wang Chuqi , Zhang Binbin , Zhou Zejiong
Published: May 2022

With the implementation of the national digital village strategy, digital construction is gradually sinking and infiltrating into rural areas. China's Rural Revitalization has entered a new stage of development. The application of digital technology in rural areas provides a new direction for rural revitalization. This paper takes Changfeng County, one of the first batch of national digital village pilot projects in Anhui Province, China, as the research object. Firstly, it analyzes the development status of digital village in Changfeng County and looks for the problems existing in the development of digital village in Changfeng County. Secondly, it constructs the evaluation index system of digital village development readiness in Changfeng County, and uses APH (analytic hierarchy process) and entropy weight method to calculate the weight of each index to measure the readiness of digital village development in Changfeng County. Finally, it puts forward the countermeasures and suggestions for the development of digital economy in Changfeng County.
Exploration on the Mode of "Online Teaching + Course Ideological and Political" in Biochemistry
Authors: Liu Xuesong , Xie Xiaorong , Geng Guangqing , Li Xueyan , Chen Xuejuan , Zhang Xiaoping
Published: May 2022

For the integrated development of online and offline education, teachers tap the ideological and political elements in biochemistry based on the software such as rain classroom, questionnaire star, blue ink cloud class and Tencent classroom and the actual situation of undergraduates, so as to organically integrate online teaching, curriculum ideological and political education and biochemistry. This paper introduces the exploration and practice of biochemistry and curriculum ideological politics from four aspects: the necessity of curriculum ideological politics, the mining of Ideological and political teaching elements of Biochemistry, the practical ways of online teaching and curriculum ideological politics, and the online evaluation of curriculum ideological politics. Combined with the author's practical experience, it provides reference for the interspersed of biochemical education and curriculum ideological politics in Colleges and universities.
Innovative Research on Party Building Work in Colleges and Universities under the New Media Vision Gap
Authors: Zheng Wenhui
Published: May 2022

This paper aims to conduct in-depth analysis of the new situation of college student party building work under the background of new media and the development trend of college student party building work. The new situation, innovate college party building work from many aspects, and study how to carry out party building work in colleges and universities in the era of new media in order to effectively cultivate excellent student party members.
The Impact of Childhood Trauma on Adult Marital Attitudes: The Mediating Effect of Core Self-evaluation
Authors: Du Shilin , Xiong Xu , Zhang Biyun , Huang Jianjun , Zhang Ping
Published: May 2022

With the development of the new era, the marriage attitude traditionally retained by society is changing, and the growth program of individuals is very important for the cultivation of core self-evaluation and the ideology of marriage attitude, so whether the level of contemporary individuals is very important for the cultivation of core self-evaluation and the ideology of marriage attitude, so whether the level of contemporary The study also examines the relationship between childhood trauma, core self-evaluation, and the ideology of marriage attitude, so whether the level of contemporary marriage can be improved by changing the degree of childhood trauma is an issue of concern. METHODS: The Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ--SF), the Marital Attitude Scale (MAS), and the Core Self--Esteem Scale (CSTS) are used to measure the relationship between childhood trauma, core self--evaluation, and marital attitudes. The Core Self--Esteem Scale (CSES) were administered in a web--released format to 431 people, with subjects in the age range of 18 to 45 years. RESULTS: Childhood trauma showed a significant positive correlation with adult marital attitudes (r=0.643, P<0.01); and with core self-evaluation (r= 0.701, P<0.01). Core self-evaluation showed a significant negative correlation with adult marital attitudes (r=-0.454, P<0.01). Core self-evaluation partially mediated the relationship between childhood trauma and adult marital attitudes. CONCLUSION: The effect of childhood trauma on adult marital attitudes can be achieved indirectly through core self-evaluation.
The Economic Cascading Effect on Future Climate Change and Agriculture Economic in Indonesia
Authors: Hadi Prabowo Bambang
Published: May 2022

Indonesia is a country with a significant agricultural sector in its economy. Indonesia with a tropical climate is home to a variety of animals and plants. The diversity of flora and fauna in Indonesia can be threatened by climate change. In addition, the agricultural sector in Indonesia is also possible to receive the adverse effects of climate change.This study adapts the method from Hallegatte (2008) using the regional adaptive input-output (ARIO) method for assessing the economic and climate change in Indonesia.Indonesia is a country that has a fairly large agricultural sector so changes in temperature have a major impact on the economy in Indonesia. Changes in temperature greatly affect the economy and agriculture. Changes in temperature also have an impact on decreasing crop yields and decreasing community economic activity which has an impact on decreasing economic growth. Changes in temperature that are getting hotter in Indonesia within a certain degree range can result in natural and economic disasters, including famine.
Taxes and Economic Development in Indonesia
Authors:   Economics Department, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Jember, Indonesia, Niken Wilantari Regina
Published: May 2022

This study investigates tax revenues, economic growth and government spending in Indonesia.This research examines data from 2000 to 2020 in order to produce "autoregressive vectors" that may be used to assess the causal link between variables. Based on secondary data from the World Bank, the following multivariate regression model was used to investigate the causal link between tax collections, economic growth, and government expenditure in Indonesia. We found that state revenues from taxes have a significant impact on economic growth and government spending. Tax payments from citizens contribute to economic growth and also government spending that triggers economic growth. Taxes are a way to distribute wealth and promote economic development. This proves that paying taxes is an important thing that must be done by citizens.
Digital Marketing in Encouraging Economic Growth and Domestic Consumption in Indonesia
Authors:   STIE Jaya Negara Tamansiswa Malang, Damayanti Lina
Published: May 2022

This study looks at digital marketing in general by investigating internet users as representatives of internet users who are segments in digital marketing, consumption which shows domestic demand as a result of the marketing mix, and economic growth as an indicator of national production.The World Bank has provided this data as a secondary source. For the years 2000 to 2020, the following variables will be analyzed using two different time series models. The country's GDP is used as a measure of economic growth in this study. Internet users (IU) and consumption (CO) respectively are the dependent and independent variables of this study because they serve as indicators of how these two variables are related in the long and short term to economic growth. There is an influence between internet users, economic growth, and consumption so digital marketing has a significant impact on consumption and economic growth in Indonesia. This is shown by the direct influence of internet users, economic growth, and consumption on internet literacy in Indonesia.
Study of floristic composition in alpine area of Kedarnath of Garhwal Himalaya in relation to density of Nardostachys jatamansi DC.
Authors: Gargya G. , Sharma A. , Vasistha H.
Published: May 2022

The present study was undertaken to understand the community behaviour of Nardostachys jatamansi in three different sub sites viz., maximum, moderate and minimum density levels in the alpine areas of Kedarnath region of Rudraprayag district in Uttarakhand. The results reveal that the density was highest in the maximum sub site followed by in the moderate and minimum sub sites. Analysis of vegetation revealed that between different densities the community composition did not vary much. Although between various sub sites the density varied significantly between maximum, moderate and minimum categories, comparison of mean density of the area. Maximum density was represented by a total of fifteen plant species, while moderate and minimum densities showed twelve and thirteen plant species respectively.
The Body of the Cross
Authors: Ables Travis E.
Published: May 2022

The Body of the Cross is a study of holy victims in Western Christian history, and how their deaths led to the idea of the cross as a substitutionary sacrifice. Since its first centuries, Christianity has traded on the suffering of victims who were substitutes for the Christian social body. They secured holiness for the church by their own sacred power, or by their reprobation and rejection. Martyrs, mystics, and heretics suffered and died for the community, which expressed the power of their tortured flesh in eucharistic, social, and christological forms. Jesus Christ was one of those holy substitutes, but it was late in Western history that his body took on the status of the exemplary victim. This book traces that story, giving special attention to popular spirituality, religious dissent, and the writing of women. It examines how the symbol of the cross functioned in key moments in this history, including the parting of the ways of Judaism and Christianity, the gnostic debates, martyr traditions, and medieval mysticism and heresy. In a Reformation era haunted by divine wrath, these themes concentrated in a new idea: Jesus Christ died on the cross to absorb divine punishment for sin, a holy body and a rejected body in one.
Commonality versus Individuality: An Ethical Dilemma?
Authors: Balibar Étienne
Published: May 2022

We are caught in a debate about ethics where the values of ‘communitarianism’ and ‘individualism’ are opposed. On one side, solidarity, belonging, fraternity, recognition; on the other side, utility or personal agency, self-entrepreneurship and self-achievement. This essay aims at historicizing and problematizing the debate, delineating a genealogy of the opposition itself, and asking in which sense it is typically ‘modern.’ A confrontation between Marx the ‘socialist’ on the communitarian side, and Foucault the Nietzschean aesthete on the individualist side, shows that they share a critique of the “empirical-transcendental doublet” of modern bourgeois anthropology. On this basis, it is possible to show that the dilemma can be ‘mediated’ on the basis of a relational ontology.
Political Theology on Edge
Authors: Keller Catherine , Crockett Clayton
Published: May 2022

The Introduction situates the volume in relation to political theology, a political theology on edge, or on the edge, of something new and transformative. The editors lay out the vision of the book, which is a changed understanding of political theology that is not derived from or limited by Carl Schmitt. This political theology is eschatological in its confrontation with anthropogenic climate change, neoliberal capitalism, race and racism, and questions of religion and theology in multiple perspectives from diverse traditions. The Introduction also summarizes each of the chapters.
Anthropocenic Journeys
Authors: Northcott Michael
Published: May 2022

Michael Northcott gives us an overview of the Anthropocene in chapter 2, but his reflections are less scientific and more personal and episodic. “Anthropocenic Journeys” supplies a more concrete discussion of particular concepts and geographies in terms of how they are impacted by and contribute to the planetary situation of the Anthropocene. As he does so, the author of A Political Theology of Climate Change attends to the shifting nature of some Christian theological imaginaries that better reflect and engage the urgent ecological in which we find ourselves.
Listening for the Power of the People: A Political Theology of Affect
Authors: Gasson-Gardner Lisa
Published: May 2022

Lisa Gasson-Gardner argues that we need religion and political reflection, including the resources of political theology. But we also require more affect, and she draws on and employs affect theory, specifically music, to intervene into the discourses of political theology to recover a kind of truth that resists racial, political, and anti-environmental authoritarianism and extremism. In chapter 9, Gasson-Gardner argues that we need to critique and repudiate the concept of sovereignty, but still retain the idea of an exception, including the exceptional power of the people to fashion their truth. She attends to the words of Jonelle Monae, whose song “Americans” performs a counter-sovereign inclusivity that voices truth.
#BlackLivesMatter and Sacred Politics
Authors: Gaiters Seth
Published: May 2022

In chapter 12, Seth Gaiters offers a counter-narrative to the predominant understanding of the Black Lives Matter Movement. Here he engages with the form of the memoir, specifically the memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir. This emphasis on the personal, affective memoir carries through an attempt of this volume to contest and expand what counts as a political-theological discourse. In addition to the genre of the memoir as a source of knowing, Gaiters attends to the distinctively sacred element expressed in and by it, as well in the Black Lives Matter movement more generally. Specifically, this text and this movement evinces a vector of the sacred. Waiters attends to how Khan-Cullors attempts to express religion in creative and transformative ways, beyond the binaries in which we are so often trapped.
Introduction
Authors: Lewis Simon , Domby Adam H.
Published: May 2022

In this introduction to the volume, the authors Simon Lewis and Adam Domby tie the book’s chapters together. As the introduction lays out, the book makes multiple arguments about the nature of freedom and Reconstruction. Besides making new arguments about periodization, international impacts, and influences beyond the South, the introduction makes clear that freedom—in all its forms—and struggles over the meaning of freedom remain crucial lenses to understand Reconstruction. The introduction also introduces readers to the stakes today and why Reconstruction still mattes. In addition to summarizing the book, the introduction discusses the roots of the book: a 2018 Conference that occurred at the College of Charleston sponsored by The Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World (CLAW) Program.
Lessons from “Redemption”
Authors: Domby Adam H.
Published: May 2022

This chapter explores how Lost Cause narratives of Reconstruction, which recalled the period as a time of corruption and misrule, were used to justify racial oppression not just in the South during Jim Crow but internationally. The supposed failure of African American enfranchisement during Reconstruction became a key talking point not only in the Jim Crow South but among colonial officials and others arguing for undemocratic white rule around the world. Drawing on examples from across the English-speaking world, from post-Boer War South Africa to Australia, the chapter shows how at the turn of the twentieth century, tales of the post–Civil War South that laid the blame for racial violence on an “unnatural” forcing of racial equality served to justify racism and oppression worldwide. This parallel to scientific racism, narratives that contribute to a form of historical racism, continues to shape the world today.
Eros
Authors: Ruiz Rosaura Martinez , Butler Judith
Published: May 2022

This book considers a promise left unfulfilled in Sigmund Freud’s Beyond the Principle of Pleasure. There Freud suggests that he will investigate a psychic tendency that is not subject to the pleasure principle, but in fact for Freud the latter remains sovereign. Following Jacques Derrida, Martínez argues that when the pleasure principle comes into contact with the death drive (a tendency toward aggression or cruelty), the psyche can take detours that, without exceeding the limit of the pleasure principle, can nevertheless defer it. Eros: Beyond the Death Drive reflects on these deviations of the pleasure principle, which Martínez finds both in the political sphere and in intimate relations. Following these erotic paths, Martínez argues that the forces of the death drive can only be resisted if resistance is understood as an ongoing process in which erotic action and the construction of pathways for sublimation are interminable tasks. We know that the final accomplishment of these tasks is impossible, but, like Freud’s “impossible professions,” they remain imperative. Though always incomplete, they remain undeniably urgent, and psychoanalysis and deconstruction remind us of their urgency. In complementary ways, both Freud and Derrida teach us that the death drive is insurmountable, but that through political action we can delay, defer, and postpone it. Martínez shows us that this effort of resistance must be uninterrupted. Calling for the creation and maintenance of a “community of mourning duelists,” this book builds toward the affirmation of the kind of “erotic battalion” that must always be mobilized.
Infrapolitics
Authors: Moreiras Alberto
Published: May 2022

The personal is not political, even if politics marks it and, in many cases, determines it. Infrapolitics seeks to understand conditions of existence that are not reducible to political life and that exceed any definition of world bound to political determinations. It seeks to mobilize an exteriority without which politics could only be business or administration, that is, oppression. It demands a change in seeing and an everyday practice that subtracts from political totalization in the name of a new production of desire, of a new emancipation, and of a conception of experience that can breach the general captivation of life. Infrapolitics thinks of itself as both a general critique of the political apparatus and as an imperative horizon for existential self-understanding. It understands the intense politicity of its gesture while at the same time claiming an enabling distance from politics. It is a form of thought aiming to provide content for a form of life. It offers a new theoretical practice for concrete existence. This book provides a genealogy of the notion and places it within contemporary philosophical reflection, examining its deployment in the wake of postphenomenology and deconstruction, Lacanian analysis, the principle of anarchy, and an egalitarian symbolization of social life.
The Last God
Authors: Moreiras Alberto
Published: May 2022

This chapter examines María Zambrano’s notion of the forgetting of the divine in the context of her articulation of democracy as the end of the sacrificial structuration of history. It places Zambrano in direct but implicit confrontation with Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time and its notion of a forgetting of being and the recuperation in resolution of a heritage. Zambrano’s concepts of “de-grounded relation” and “life without texture” will result in a thinking of un-legacy, of the breakdown and loss of a heritage, which is the thinking and experience of the historically and existentially vanquished.
Intermission 2: Glyph 2
Authors: Naas Michael
Published: May 2022

This subchapter (or second “intermission” in the play “Derrida in Montreal”) returns to the 1977 debate between Jacques Derrida and John Searle over the interpretation and inheritance of the speech act theory of John Austin. This chapter focuses on Derrida’s response in the essay “Limited Inc” to John Searle’s criticisms of his 1971 essay “Signature Event Context.” It is argued here that Derrida is, in many ways, the more faithful of Austin’s heirs, even though he will have taken speech act theory in directions that Austin would have no doubt been loath to endorse.
Act 3: The Event (1997)
Authors: Naas Michael
Published: May 2022

In this third and final act of “Derrida in Montreal,” we see Derrida in April 1997, some eighteen years after the second act, yet again in Montreal, speaking at the Canadian Center for Architecture, giving a series of improvised remarks that would later be published under the title “A Certain Impossible Possibility of Saying the Event.” We here see Derrida returning yet again to the question of the speech act, some twenty-six years after “Signature Event Context,” this time with a renewed emphasis on the event. We thus see how Derrida’s earlier appropriation of speech act theory eventually turned into a rethinking of the event as what comes before every speech “act” and all performativity in general, the event as what involves a certain passivity rather than activity and a lack of performative power rather than a special form of it. Through this reading, we are able to take the measure of both the continuity in Derrida’s work from the early 1970s through the late 1990s and the important shifts or transformations—the chance mutations, perhaps—within it.
Grace and the Machine
Authors: Naas Michael
Published: May 2022

This chapter focuses on the first volume of Derrida’s seminar Perjury and Pardon (1997–1998), where Derrida returns, more than a quarter of a century after “Signature Event Context,” to questions of contingency and the speech act and, especially, the possibility of a speech act in writing. The chapter shows the way in which this displacement from speech to writing, this move to a “speech” act in writing, to what Derrida often calls here an oeuvre, ends up challenging many of the assumptions of speech act theory as articulated by Austin and Searle. For such a work or “act” in writing would be essentially detached or detachable from its context, severed right from the start from anything like the intention or the living presence of the author or actor of the act, in a word, severed from the life that would have supposedly produced it. Hence the emphasis here on the “machine,” and thus the question of whether the text as machine can “produce” something like a speech act and whether it can lead—beyond life—to a sort of grace.
“We Have No Time to Wallow”: Death and Other Timely Diversions
Authors: Isaac Allan Punzalan
Published: May 2022

The chapter takes up affective diversions as explored in a musical, Care Divas, staged in Manila about queer Filipino caregivers in Israel. The musical brings global migration and the regional politics of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict into queer spaces, times, and communities. While death is always a possibility in war and within contract labor’s precarious condition in a war zone, death as staged by the musical performance makes visible lifeways and networks. The plot’s ‘“refusal to wallow,” as per the director, in the face of tragedies generates the emergence of other ways to form communalities, even life amid annihilation. The work, along with its source material, plays with stopping, extending, disembodying, retelling, and making impossible the life and time(s) of the protagonists. Refusing the hero/victim binary sought by nationalist fantasies, the musical looks at non-state-sanctioned relationships to show how family and nation as precarious fictions give way to temporary collectivities that find life in the musical’s virtual time and place.
Introduction
Authors: Merdjanova Ina
Published: May 2022

The introduction presents the themes, methodologies, and objectives of the volume. It gives an overview of the chapters’ content and highlights the volume's two major intertwined lines of analysis: continuity and transformation. Those lines of analysis cut through social practices, demographic trends, and larger material contexts at the intersection between gender, Orthodoxy, and locality, while positionality and intersectionality in the relation between women and Orthodoxy form the general methodological framework of the volume.
The Corpse in the Kitchen
Authors: Waterman Adam John
Published: May 2022

The Corpse in the Kitchen explores relationships between the dispossession of Indigenous peoples, the enclosure of Indigenous land and extraction of Indigenous resources, and settler colonialism as a technique of racial capitalism. Drawing upon the literature and historiography of the so-called Black Hawk War, it looks to the colonization of the upper Mississippi River lead region as one instance of primitive accumulation for purposes of mineral accretion. While conventional histories of the Black Hawk War have treated the conflict as gratuitous and tragic, The Corpse in the Kitchen argues that the conflict between Black Hawk, settler militias, and the federal military were part of a struggle over the dispensation of mineral resources, specifically, mineral lead. The elemental basis for the fabrication of bullets, the federal state had a vested interest in control over regional lead resources, as a means of manufacturing the implements by which it would secure its sovereignty over North America. As the basis for metallic type, the abundance of lead drawn from the mines of the upper Mississippi would also occasion an expansion of printing, creating new technologies of memory and forgetting. The Corpse in the Kitchen explores the intimacies between extraction and killing, writing, printing, memory, and forgetting, a story of settlers as rapacious consumers of Indigenous peoples.
Constantly at Their Weaving Work: Historiography and the Annihilation of the Body
Authors: Waterman Adam John
Published: May 2022

The Black Hawk War was a preoccupation of writers throughout the nineteenth century, producing untold poems and stories, personal narratives, testimonials, monographs, and books. The constant reiteration of the story of the Black Hawk War produced a narrative that could serve alternately as tragedy or romance, depending on the ideological orientation of the teller. Whether sympathetic to Black Hawk, or not, such narratives had less to do with the conditions he and his people met as they struggled against colonization and dispossession, than with the nation coming to know itself, either through spectacles of pain and bloodshed or through rituals of mourning. This chapter explores these dynamics through a consideration of four different works treating the history of the Black Hawk War. It argues that the fiction of the Black Hawk War was produced through writing and printing as technologies of narrative enclosure, a process that distracted from the continuities between histories of resource capture, social conflict, settler ingress, Native resistance, and dispossession.
CCERS STEM + C – Emphasis on the Professional Learning of the Classroom Teachers – Expansion of the Pillar
Authors: Birney Lauren , McNamara Denise M.
Published: May 2022

This qualitative study chronicles one of the fundamental pillars of the Curriculum and Community Enterprise for Restoration Science (CCERS). The professional development is focused on curricula that are grounded in the community-based environmental restoration of the waterways of New York Harbor. Centered on the restoration of the native oyster population, hundreds of New York City public school teachers take part in this experience with the intent of increasing their own place-based pedagogical content knowledge and skills. Most of the participants teach in school with populations that are underrepresented in post-secondary STEM majors and STEM related careers. Professional learning activities for teachers and community scientists were offered throughout the 2021 calendar year. Professional Learning Activity Surveys were administered and teachers responded to questions about how they participated in CCERS events, the ways in which CCERS participation has impacted their teaching practice, whether they use CCERS activities for student research, and ways CCERS participation impacts student STEM career interest. An intended outcome is to instill a STEM identity in students identifying as URM and to bring STEM career awareness to these students. More than 72% of the teachers in the professional development sessions agreed that the professional learning activities were effective in providing new STEM content knowledge and best practices for teaching. The majority also reported that the sessions enabled them to increase their students’ engagement with STEM and interest in STEM careers.
The Relationship of Fluid Intelligence Level with Higher-order Thinking Skills in Work and Energy among Sixth-grade Students in Jordan
Authors: Abdallah Obeidat Fadel Ali , Saleh Salmiza
Published: May 2022

This study aims to investigate the relationship between levels of fluid intelligence and higher-order thinking skills according to Bloom's three levels classification (analysis, evaluation, creation) among sixth grade students in Jordan in the subject of work and energy as one of the science book topics for the first semester of the academic year 2021-2022. For this purpose, a test for higher-order thinking skills was designed on the subject of work and energy, consisting of 17 paragraphs of the type of essay questions and multiple-choice in the 3 areas of higher-order thinking skills (analysis, evaluation, creation). The standard Raven test of fluid intelligence with its 5 levels was also applied to the students. After conducting the statistical analysis, the results of the study revealed: (1) a decrease in the level of higher-order thinking skills to less than the average (analysis, evaluation, and creation, respectively); and (2) a positive correlation between the students' fluid intelligence and their scores in the higher-order thinking skills test. Therefore, the study recommended including activities that take into account fluid intelligence in the curricula to improve students' performance in higher-order thinking skills.