bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Granting Inequities: Racialization and Gender Differences in Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada's Grant Amounts for Research Elites
Authors: Nakhaie Reza , Lippert Randy K. , Cukarski Dobrila
Published: July 2023

Abstract: This paper explores inequities in the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) grant amounts awarded to successful applicants in Canada's universities. Specifically, the study seeks to discern whether ethnicity and gender matter for amounts of SSHRCC's award decisions using compiled SSHRCC data and names of successful grant applicants to generate a large sample from 1998 to 2018. Although the importance of ethnicity along with gender and region, as well as institutional factors such as discipline and status of an applicant's university are explored in relation to higher education institutions' applicants, our focus is on effects of racialization on SSHRCC's decisions. We find that several factors affect the amount of grants awarded and that racialized applicants, especially men, have tended to receive less funding than non-racialized applicants over this period. In addition, on the one hand, the grant amount for racialized minorities has decreased in recent years. On the other hand, racialized women applicants received higher grant amounts than their counterparts, and particularly in recent years. Conceptual, empirical, methodological, and policy implications of these findings are discussed. Résumé: Cet article explore les inégalités dans les montants des subventions accordées par le Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada (CRSH) aux candidats retenus dans les universités canadiennes. Plus précisément, l'étude vise à déterminer si l'origine ethnique et le sexe ont une incidence sur le montant des subventions accordées par le CRSH, en utilisant les données compilées du CRSH et les noms des candidats retenus pour générer un vaste échantillon de 1998 à 2018. Bien que l'importance de l'ethnicité, du sexe et de la région, ainsi que des facteurs institutionnels tels que la discipline et le statut de l'université d'un candidat soient explorés par rapport aux candidats des établissements d'enseignement supérieur, nous centrons notre analyse sur les effets de la racialisation dans les décisions du CRSH. Nous postulons que plusieurs facteurs affectent le montant des subventions accordées et que les candidats racialisés, en particulier les hommes, ont tendance à recevoir moins de financement que les candidats non racialisés au cours de cette période. En outre, d'une part, le montant des subventions accordées aux minorités racialisées a diminué au cours des dernières années. D'autre part, les femmes racialisées candidates ont reçu un montant de subvention plus élevé que leurs homologues, en particulier au cours des dernières années. Les implications conceptuelles, empiriques, méthodologiques et politiques de ces résultats sont discutées.
Du déni de la différence à l'adaptation dans les interventions de services publics : Conditions individuelles et organisationnelles de sensibilité interculturelle
Authors: Martel Angéline , Gagné Nancy
Published: July 2023

Résumé: Des transformations contemporaines incitent aux relations interpersonnelles et intergroupales qui impliquent la reconnaissance ou le déni de la différence et de la diversité. Parmi ces transformations, on pourrait nommer l'intensification des déplacements migratoires ou touristiques, l'élargissement de la mondialisation, l'accroissement des communications numériques et la mise en oeuvre des droits de la personne et de l'aide humanitaire. Ces transformations contribuent à l'importance grandissante accordée à la recherche, et conséquemment à la formation, portant sur la compétence interculturelle (CI), tant sur le plan théorique qu'appliqué à des contextes particuliers. Un exemple de contexte particulier serait celui des employés-es de services publics qui intervennent auprès de populations diversifiées. La présente étude propose d'apporter un éclairage sur ces services afin de connaitre le stade de développement de la CI d'intervenants-es ainsi que les situations interculturelles problématiques les plus couramment vécues. Sur le plan théorique, le modèle de développement de la sensibilité interculturelle ( Developmental Model on Intercultural Sensitivity ) (MDSI) est utilisé. La recherche repose sur une analyse de discours de groupes de discussion auprès d'intervenants-es de cinq services publics de la grande région de Montréal, Québec (Canada) : Urgences-santé, service de sécurité incendie pompiers premiers répondants (SSI-PPR), bibliothèques et Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ), centres locaux d'emploi et services de police. Une analyse statistique en dégage les tendances significatives pour chaque service public. Abstract: Contemporary transformations are driving interpersonal and intergroup relations that imply the recognition, or denial, of differences and diversity. These transformations include the intensification of migratory or tourist movements, the expansion of globalization, the growth of digital communications, and the implementation of human rights and humanitarian aid. These transformations contribute to the growing importance of research, and consequently training, on intercultural competence (IC), both theoretically and applied to specific contexts. The present study aims to shed light on these services in order to understand the stage of development of IC of practitioners as well as the most commonly experienced intercultural problematic situations. Theoretically, the Developmental Model on Intercultural Sensitivity (MDSI) is used. The research is based on a discourse analysis of focus groups with stakeholders from five public services in the greater Montreal area, Quebec (Canada): Emergency Health Services, Fire Safety and First Responders (SSI-PPR), Libraries and Library et national Archives of Québec (BAnQ), local employment centers and police services. Statistical analysis identifies significant trends for each public service.
From Temporary Foreign Workers to Permanent Residents: Differences in Transition Rates Among Work Permit Categories
Authors: Haan Michael , Li Yuchen
Published: July 2023

Abstract: In recent years, temporary foreign workers (TFWs) have not only played an important role in filling Canada's labour shortages and advancing Canada's broad economic and cultural interests but are also seen as a large source of permanent residents admitted to Canada. TFWs come to Canada through various work permit categories under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) and the International Mobility Program (IMP). This research uses the 2019 Longitudinal Immigration Database (IMDB) to examine the factors that predict the transition rates of TFWs admitted to Canada between 2005 and 2014. The results of this study show that the five-year cumulative transition rates of TFWs are strongly associated with their work permit categories. Further, this study reveals that age, skill level, and initial destinations significantly affect the transition rates of TFWs in Canada. Finally, we discuss the implications of these findings for economic immigration policy and make suggestions for future research. Résumé: Ces dernières années, les travailleurs étrangers temporaires (TET) ont joué un rôle important non seulement en comblant les pénuries de main-d'oeuvre au Canada et en faisant progresser les intérêts économiques et culturels du pays, mais sont également considérés comme une grande source de résidents permanents admis au Canada. Les TET viennent au Canada grâce à diverses catégories de permis de travail dans le cadre du Programme des travailleurs étrangers temporaires (PTET) et du Programme de mobilité internationale (PMI). Cette recherche utilise la base de données longitudinales sur l'immigration de 2019 (IMDB) pour examiner les facteurs qui prédisent les taux de transition des TET qui sont admis au Canada entre 2005 et 2014. Les résultats de cette étude montrent que les taux de transition cumulative quinquennal des TET sont fortement associés à leurs catégories de permis de travail. De plus, cette étude révèle que l'âge, le niveau de compétence et les destinations initiales comportent le taux de transition des TET au Canada. Enfin, nous discutons des implications de ces résultats pour la politique d'immigration économique et nous faisons des suggestions pour des recherches futures.
Au piano et dans les starting blocks
Authors: Decout Maxime
Published: July 2023

Abstract: L’œuvre d’Echenoz est une œuvre dynamique, dans laquelle les personnages sont souvent en mouvement. Deux représentants de ce rapport au geste, au déplacement et au corps retiendront l’attention : le musicien et le sportif. Echenoz leur a consacré trois livres au statut différent : Au piano , Ravel et Courir . S’il écrire la course à pied invite à se pencher sur la gestuelle du sportif, écrire la musique, par nature immatérielle, incite plutôt à l’aborder à partir des dimensions affectives ou harmoniques qui lui sont attachées. Mais Au piano et Ravel s’attaquent à la musique en tant qu’activité physique . C’est le musicien qui nous met en contact avec son art, ce qui le rapproche étonnamment du sportif. D’autant que ce dernier est lui aussi considéré comme un artiste. Tous deux pratiquent un art qui tient de l’excellence et de l’exception. Et celui-ci ne passe par des mots mais par des gestes, qui imposent de les décrypter à partir d’une archéologie mettant en lumière la façon dont ils relèvent d’une sémiologie, de scénographies, voire de mythologies telles que Barthes les a étudiées.
Trajet brisé et terrains vagues : Étude de figures cheminatoires dans l’œuvre de Jean Echenoz
Authors: Delcour Manon
Published: July 2023

Abstract: L’objectif de cet article est d’étudier le motif de la marche dans l’œuvre de Jean Echenoz, plus particulièrement d’analyser quelques figures stylistiques et “cheminatoires” dans “Le sens du portail,” Un an et Envoyée spéciale . À l’aide des travaux de Michel de Certeau et de Jean-Christophe Bailly, nous montrerons que le mouvement pédestre s’associe au travail de (re)composition du récit et de description de la ville d’une part, à un questionnement des discours urbains d’autre part.
In the Echenozian Discomfort Zone: Desire and Creativity in the Shadow of Death
Authors: O’Beirne Emer
Published: July 2023

Abstract: Critics welcomed a return to richly plotted imaginative fiction in Jean Echenoz’s most recent novels ( Envoyée spéciale , 2016; Vie de Gérard Fulmard , 2020). Yet these novels are also striking for how they intensify a previously perceptible posture of narratorial fatigue, even to the point of death, as well as for their staging of self-conscious stylistic poverty. More than the seductions of plot, they foreground the seductive “grain” of the storytelling voice, its offering of jouissance through breaches of the fictional world (intertextual allusion, versificatory units etc), now in the mode of decline and failure.
Donner lieu au corps sensible : Lire Courir de Jean Echenoz et La Lenteur de Milan Kundera
Authors: Lepsoo Tanel
Published: July 2023

Abstract: Cet article étudie le roman Courir de Jean Echenoz en regard avec La Lenteur de Milan Kundera, afin d’examiner de plus près un certain nombre de situations dans lesquelles le monde extérieur tente de contrôler le corps d’un individu. Kundera décrit le monde capitaliste et médiatique, qui force souvent les personnes à se ridiculiser par mimétisme, puisqu’ils préfèrent cela à l’oubli et à l’insignifiance. Chez Echenoz, qui décrit le parcours d’un coureur tchécoslovaque sous le régime socialiste autoritaire, le protagoniste parvient néanmoins à se dérober à l’emprise du pouvoir idéologique et médiatique grâce au rapport particulier et personnel qu’il entretient avec son corps. Cette façon de résister est définie en termes esthétiques comme une ligne serpentine, qui contourne les modèles préétablis et est propre tant aux manifestations corporelles du personnage qu’au style de l’écrivain.
Decolonial Feminist Storying on the Coquille River: A Digital Humanities Approach to Human and Non-human Communication and Prevention of the Fall Chinook Salmon Extinction
Authors: Cordes Ashley , Huff Micah
Published: July 2023

Abstract: The Coquille River Basin has long been a steady stream of stories, peoples, animals, and non-human objects. The basin has, however, been polluted, invaded, and subjected to myriad maltreatments, the most recent result of which is the decline of the Coquille River fall Chinook salmon. This article contributes to the "On Decolonial Feminisms" special issue by addressing this decline through a participatory action research project based in the digital humanities, Indigenous feminisms, and land-based pedagogy. From this theoretical framework, we produce a method of critical cartography and storied land utilizing ArcGIS story-mapping technology to educate viewers on the history of the Coquille River Basin and the decline of Chinook salmon. This project challenges settler narratives, particularly settler environmentalism and patriarchal control of land, by rejecting dichotomies that deanimate non-human beings and by demonstrating Indigenous feminist stewardship of land through love, desire, care, and prayer. The article ends by providing an overview of the ways digital art projects can continue challenging settler colonialism and by encouraging feminist scholars to theoretically expand their work to interrogate and challenge the patriarchal subjugation and oppression of all beings.
Resurgent Education as Decolonial Feminist Praxis
Authors: Sabzalian Leilani , Jacob Michelle M. , Weiser-Nieto Roshelle
Published: July 2023

Abstract: In this paper, we describe and analyze the ways in which we center the importance of kinship and relationality in an Indigenous education seminar. Throughout the seminar, we invite Indigenous teacher candidates to turn inward to see, learn from, and teach about the brilliance of their own lands, languages, and communities. We view our work as thinking with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's beautiful vision of resurgent education. We do this work in collaboration with Tuxámshish Dr. Virginia Beavert, Yakama Tribal Elder, who serves as a mentor in our program. We focus on three key points that advance our vision of resurgent education as decolonial feminist praxis: 1) Relationality is power; 2) Land is a nurturing teacher who constantly extends power to us; 3) Creating space for resurgence requires challenging colonial relations of power. We conclude that our project is a form of decolonial feminist praxis and invite our feminist colleagues to see themselves as part of and responsible for this vital work.
State Disappearances in the United States: A Decolonial Feminist Analysis About the Enactment of State Terror on Undocumented Immigrants by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
Authors: Girón Joanna Beltrán
Published: July 2023

Abstract: State violence in the so-called United States impacting undocumented immigrants living under the construction of (il)legality calls for a decolonial feminist enactment of psychosocial research. This article presents a multi-scalar analysis of the embodied aftermath of state violence, enacted through the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) practice of state disappearances, on two undocumented Latina immigrants. Centering on decolonial feminisms and drawing on liberation psychology and intersectionality, this study investigates the embodied sequelae of living undocumented under the terror of ICE. This study undertakes a secondary analysis of two interviews that were selected from a larger database of in-depth interviews (N = 39). The two stories were selected considering gender and explicitness of the embodied aftermath of psychosocial torture by ICE. The data was gathered in Austin, Texas in 2019, marking a year after the two largest ICE raids in recent history which together resulted in the arrests of at least 304 Latinx immigrants in Central, South, and North Texas. ICE terror has embodied, affective, and material consequences on those who are subjected to such violence; therefore, a decolonial feminist analysis about the embodied impacts of state violence and its sequela contribute to understandings of decolonial feminist enactment of qualitative analytic methods in psychology.
Invulnerability and the Cartography of Resistance to Imperialism
Authors: Lieberman Benjamin
Published: July 2023

Abstract: Pursuit of invulnerability proliferated in the modern era when individuals took objects into battle or followed practices promising immunity from harm. Western contemporaries wrote off these beliefs as primitive, and later scholars minimized their importance, arguing that colonial authorities exaggerated invulnerability to obscure economic grievances. To date, invulnerability has gained attention for its role in millenarianism. Adopting a case study approach Michael Adas argued that groups that lost power supported prophetic movements. However, the frequency of invulnerability shows the value of a geographic approach. This article charts locations and timing of invulnerability practices to map out zones of invulnerability. This broader approach helps to identify causes for the proliferation of invulnerability. Invulnerability did not create a unified or proto-nationalist response to rapid imperial expansion and settler societies, but invulnerability reflected the shock and disorientation of the period on a global scale.
Samurai and Mongols: How a Medieval Samurai Became Chinggis Khan
Authors: Linkhoeva Tatiana
Published: July 2023

Abstract: In 1924, Oyabe Zen’ichirō (1867–1941), an amateur historian, published a small book, Chinggis Khan was Minamoto no Yoshitsune (Jingisu Kan wa Minamoto no Yoshitsune nari), which revived the old tale of the medieval samurai Yoshitsune’s escape to the territory of present Mongolia, where after unifying the Mongolian tribes he took the name of Chinggis Khan. Oyabe’s book reveals how in the interwar period the imagined medieval past and historical personalities were mobilized in the Japanese imperial expansion into the Mongolian lands. This article demonstrates how in the post–World War I years Japanese imperial boosters formulated a new rhetoric of the shared historical, cultural, political, and racial heritage with the Mongols, which ultimately justified the Japanese military plans to bring the Mongolian lands and its people, formally divided between the Qing and Romanov empires, under imperial Japan’s control.
The Mexican Labor Movement and the Global Scripts of Revolution, 1910–1929
Authors: Fender Stephan
Published: July 2023

Abstract: This article examines the influence of global revolutionary scripts on the nascent labor movement in revolutionary Mexico. During the turmoil of the 1910s and 1920s, Mexican workers appropriated and utilized a wide range of revolutionary examples from the classical world, the French Revolution, the Paris Commune, and the October Revolution to create a frame and a narrative for events in Mexico. The influence of global scripts was determined by the agency of local actors. Over time, they formed a repository of mobilizing tools and were used or suppressed depending on the current framework of revolutionary politics. Since the historiography of the Mexican Revolution is predominantly national in its perspective, the examination of this process among subaltern actors opens the possibility for global comparative approaches that connect the Mexican case with the development and spread of revolutionary thought in other parts of the world.
China and the Spirit of Booker T. Washington: Applying Lessons from the Southern Black American Experience in Rural Republican China, 1920–1940
Authors: Barnes Melvin
Published: July 2023

Abstract: This article analyzes Chinese coverage of the African American experience from 1920 to 1940. It argues that through the transfer of news media, ideas, and the physical act of travel, African Americans’ lived experiences and advancement became a point of interest for Chinese students, scholars, and political actors who aspired to address the social and political challenges facing Republican China. These authors extracted broad lessons from Black America and did not focus exclusively on African American bondage. While several studies have shown how African Americans in the twentieth century first looked to the Empire of Japan and then the People’s Republic of China as sources of inspiration, this article reveals a broader story of exchange. By reversing the aforementioned flow of information and ideas back across the Pacific, this article highlights how Black America, beleaguered as it may have been, also served as an object of emulation.
Shaping (Il)legal Mobilities: Regulations, Pilgrim Passports, and the Hajj in Tsarist Central Asia During the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
Authors: Zehni Malika
Published: July 2023

Abstract: This paper examines the role of documentary mechanisms in the formation and reconfiguration of different pilgrimage routes in Central Asia during Russian rule. It focuses on how mass mobility in the form of pilgrimage was at once facilitated by the introduction of modern forms of transportation and channeled by regimes of regulation and paperwork. The article aims to reconstruct the discourses that took place among officials of the Russian colonial administration and their understanding of Muslim mobility. More importantly, the study examines how the indigenous population navigated and resisted these regulations en route to Mecca. By examining colonial and diplomatic correspondence, along with travel documents in Turki, Persian, and Russian languages, the paper sheds light on the classification of itineraries as legal and illegal through pilgrim passports and documentary regulations.
How to Write a Novel in the Present-Indefinite: Charles Yu, Mohsin Hamid, and Science Fiction as Critique
Authors: Murray Mitch R.
Published: July 2023

Abstract: As we are no doubt tired of being told, ours is a homogenous future-canceling present. Against this brand of doomism, in which the possibility of just and sustainable futures is steamrolled by the linear temporal progression of imperial and capitalist domination, this essay argues for the minor utopian function of the novel. It reads Charles Yu's How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (2011) and Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (2013) to elaborate a present internally riven by the temporal dynamics of racialization, empire, and capitalism. The essay examines these novels' generic manipulations of science fiction and the how-to book to show that the homogenous time of the present is anything but. In both novels, the crises of our present—first embedded in our timeline by colonial and imperial domination—contain within them an immanent future that "only appears when you think about it, like the text of a book" (Yu 2011, 228). These how-to books have a distinctly science fictional lesson for us and for the contemporary novel: when time appears to come to a standstill, the labor of the novel becomes to speculate on, and cultivate our desires for, the possibility of cooperative life. In making this case, the essay adds to a growing body of academic literature that grasps dialectical critique as an endemic feature of the novel form.
"The Eager Arab Astronaut": Fantasies of (Superheroic) Flight in the Lebanese Diasporic Imagination
Authors: Haddad Vincent
Published: July 2023

Abstract: This essay puts into conversation two texts that negotiate the fantasy of space, flight, and Arab identity, specifically focused on the Lebanese diaspora: A. Naji Bakhti's debut novel Between Beirut and the Moon (2020) and superhero comics about the Lebanese American Green Lantern Simon Baz (2012–2021). Drawing on a history of how aerial surveys and perspectives inflicted the modernizing logic of empires in Lebanon, this essay argues that the visual modalities of empire are reinscribed in these texts' fantasies of flight. In Between Beirut and the Moon , Adam dreams of becoming an astronaut and flying to the moon, a fantasy itself deeply entrenched and complicated by the logics of empire. In Green Lantern (2011–2016) and Green Lanterns (2016–2018), Simon Baz offers a complicated fulfillment of Adam's childhood fantasy as the "first Arab astronaut." Ultimately, while Simon's superpowers suggest the limitless, liberatory possibility of flight in the Lebanese imagination, in practice they reinforce many of the same restrictions that limit Adam's dream and necessitate his departure to England.
World, Class, Tragicomedy: Johannesburg, 1994
Authors: Kruger Liam
Published: July 2023

Abstract: Marlene van Niekerk's 1994 Triomf is a plaasroman , or farm novel, without the farm; it formally resembles a nostalgic pastoral genre initiated by the collapse of Southern African agricultural economy around the time of the Great Depression, but removes even the symbol of the farm as aesthetic compensation for material loss. In the process, van Niekerk composes a post-apartheid tragicomedy of a lumpenproletariat white supremacist family coming into long-belated class consciousness, an epiphany which, surprisingly, survives the novel's translations from Afrikaans to South African English to 'international' English. Crucially, this understanding is mediated by a critical tendency to appraise Triomf in the context of Faulkner and the Southern Gothic, a generic comparison which gets a lot wrong but is ultimately very revealing, less about Triomf than about the imperial world-system through which it circulates and is consecrated. Consequently, the novel stages globally what seems at first to be a parochial question: how is one supposed to imagine democratic reconciliation and integration after apartheid, when one of the classes to be reconciled lacks historical self-consciousness and has no obvious place in either the apartheid regime or the post-apartheid dispensation? By analyzing van Niekerk's novel and the institutions which consecrate it, the paper fleshes out critiques of world-literary hermeneutics, specifically for its naive handling of genre and context, and of post-apartheid 'reconciliation' under capital.
The pre-thirteenth-century nave of Leighlin Cathedral: a reassessment of the building and its historical context
Authors: Gem Richard
Published: July 2023

Published accounts of Leighlin Cathedral, Co. Carlow, have interpreted it as a structure of essentially no earlier than the late-thirteenth or early-fourteenth century, with a series of alterations thereafter down to the sixteenth century, followed by restorations in the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. The aim of this paper is to challenge the received interpretation of the earliest phase or phases of the fabric, presenting a case for the existing nave being a pre-thirteenth-century structure, built at least in part under Bishop Dúngal Ua Cáellaide (c. 1145x1152–1181) assisted by the patronage of Murchad Mac Gormáin, lord of the trícha cét of Uí Bairrche. Part I of the paper provides an analysis of the fabric and sets it into a contemporary architectural context. Part II examines the likely historical context of the building, insofar as this can be reconstructed.
Colonial Responsibility for Education of Koreans in Japanese Schools
Authors: Tai Eika
Published: July 2023

Abstract: As soon as their homeland was liberated in August 1945, Koreans living in Japan opened schools for children, who hardly spoke Korean. They fought back against the Japanese government’s intervention, but the majority of Korean children had to attend public schools, where they were treated as if they were Japanese. Some Japanese teachers opposed postwar assimilationist education and tried to take colonial responsibility through providing postcolonial education for Koreans in Japanese schools. I look into how those teachers engaged in Zainichi Korean education from the 1950s to the early 1970s, examining narratives from two teachers’ associations in Osaka against the backdrop of sociopolitical circumstances and discursive formations. Whereas researchers of postcolonial education in North America delve into race relations and white privilege, I inquire into minzoku (ethnicity, ethnic-nation) relations and colonial responsibility. The concept of minzoku was central to teachers’ narratives. The issue of colonial responsibility was raised in a social movement against the Japan-ROK negotiations for normalization and was applied to Zainichi Korean education. This development transformed the ways in which teachers dealt with Korean children. I demonstrate the historical significance of teachers’ struggles and suggest the importance of interethnic dialogue in the pursuit of taking colonial responsibility.
The Presentation of the Korean Self with Everyday Food: Negotiating “Koreanness” through Kimchi Diplomacy in Contemporary Japan
Authors: Demelius Yoko
Published: July 2023

Abstract: This study explores domestic cultural diplomacy efforts to brand “Koreaness” using kimchi as a medium of civic movement for minority awareness and intercultural dialogue in Japan. Amid current global consumption trends, popular Korean dishes, including kimchi, have become diffused among the many other international dishes appropriated in Japan. Once negatively regarded in Japan as immigrants’ food that symbolized ethnic Koreans’ marginalization, many now consider kimchi to be a comfort food. Although some Korean residents perceive kimchi’s popularity in Japan as a sign of reduced skepticism toward and gradual acceptance of Koreanness and Korean residents in Japanese society, many Koreans approach kimchi as a medium through which they express their Koreanness and negotiate their position as an ethnic minority in relation to Japan’s “homogeneous” national identity. Discussions surrounding the production and consumption of kimchi in Japan reveal the delicate negotiations at play in the Korean minority’s assertion of proper Koreanness in Japan. Based on ethnographic work conducted among Korean communities in western Japan, this study investigates the performative and preservation efforts that the Korean community undertakes to sustain their ethnicity while becoming an increasingly integral part of Japanese society.
Transforming Non-Memory into Memory: Photographic Representations of Korean Pipokja in Kim Hyoyeon’s Gamgak isang (Abnormal Sense)
Authors: Jang Nayun
Published: July 2023

Abstract: This essay examines Kim Hyoyeon’s photographic series Gamgak isang (Abnormal sense) (2018–2021), which explores the memories of Korean A-bomb victims ( pipokja ) living in Hapcheon, South Korea. Starting from the artist’s own memory of her grandmother, Kim’s work focuses on the lives of the victims and their descendants, who retain painful memories as a form of physical and psychological suffering. The essay examines the historical contexts in Japan and South Korea that rendered memories of Korean A-bomb victims invisible and mute. On the basis of such historical analysis, it discusses the ways in which Gamgak isang breaks down grand narratives into units of personal memories in order to make sense of what happened to the individual victims. Focusing on the ways in which the series sheds light on the realm of the familial, the essay also analyses how it suggests the potential for creating a new form of postmemorial kinship through visual means. Such discussions will lead to the proposition that vernacular memories can eventually offer a transnational lens to view the memory of the Asia-Pacific War and its aftermath, thus letting us think outside the traditional boundaries of nation-states.
Korea, Its People and Customs as Seen by the World Renown Novelist Vicente Blasco Ibañez (1923)
Authors: Domenech Antonio J. , Martín-Casares Aurelia , Kang Eun Kyung
Published: July 2023

Abstract: This article examines the image that the famous Spanish novelist Vicente Blasco Ibañez offers of Korea, its people, and its customs based on his writings derived from his stay in the country in 1923 during the period of Japanese occupation. It discusses his descriptions of Korea’s dress, weather, and customs, as well as his praise for the Korean people. In the same way, it addresses the subtle perceptions and well-documented readings that the author makes of different periods of Korean history, including the compassion he shows towards the last prince of the Yi dynasty and his apologetic vision of Queen Min for her resistance against the Japanese colonial power. It is a new look at the novelist’s trip to Korea, highlighting unknown aspects which were silenced or poorly interpreted, and adds new sources for his study.
Orthogonal synthesis of a versatile building block for dual functionalization of targeting vectors
Authors: Handula Maryana , Chapeau Dylan , Seimbille Yann
Published: July 2023

Dual functionalization of targeting vectors, such as peptides and antibodies, is still synthetically challenging despite the increasing demand for such molecules serving multiple purposes (i.e., optical and nuclear imaging). Our strategy was to synthesize a versatile building block via the orthogonal incorporation of chemical entities (e.g., radionuclide chelator, fluorescent dye, cytotoxic drugs, click handle, and albumin binder) in order to prepare various dual functionalized biovectors. The functional groups were introduced on the building block using straightforward chemical reactions. Thus, an azidolysine and a biogenic lysine were installed into the building block to allow the coupling of the second functional group and the regioselective conjugation to the biovector via the strain-promoted azide–alkyne cycloaddition, while the first functional group was inserted during the solid-phase peptide synthesis. To extend the applicability of the building block to large biomolecules, such as antibodies, a DBCO-maleimide linker was clicked to the azidolysine to present a maleimide group that could react with the exposed sulfhydryl groups of the cysteine residues. To exemplify the possibilities offered by the building block, we synthesized two dual-functionalized compounds containing a 2,2′,2″′,2‴-(1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane-1,4,7,10-tetrayl) tetraacetic acid chelator and an albumin binder (4a) to extend the blood half-life of radiolabeled biovectors or a click handle (4b) to enable the late-stage click reaction; 4a and 4b were conjugated to a model cyclic peptide bearing a short thiolated linker at the N-terminal position, in a single step via the thiol–maleimide Michael addition. Both dual-functionalized peptides, 9a and 9b, were obtained rapidly in high chemical purity (>95%) and labeled with [111In]InCl3. Both radiopeptides showed good stability in mouse serum and PBS buffer.
Preparation and characterization of sisal fibre reinforced sodium alginate gum composites for non-structural engineering applications
Authors: Pradeepa Balaji Rao , Kiruthika Amirthalingam V.
Published: July 2023

In this work, untreated/treated sisal fibre (SF)-reinforced sodium alginate composites for three different concentrations (1.5%, 2%, and 2.5%) are fabricated by the hand lay-up method, and the variations in mechanical properties such as tensile strength, flexural strength, and impact strength are studied. The treated and untreated composites are analysed and compared using scanning electron microscope to study the surface morphology. Energy-dispersive spectroscopic analysis is carried out to evaluate the elemental compositions. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopic analysis is conducted to determine the interaction between fibres and matrix material. The thermal observations such as differential scanning calorimetry and thermogravimetric analysis showed only slight variations between the untreated and treated SF composites. The results of this work indicate that untreated sample with the maximum sodium alginate gum concentration had significantly enhanced mechanical properties and low moisture absorption rate. Biodegradation test inferred that it was superior for the treated fibre rather than the untreated fibre composites. The primary objective of this work is to assess the suitability of these composites for non-structural engineering applications.
Adsorption/desorption performance of cellulose membrane for Pb(ii)
Authors: Zhao Bai-Yun , He Jiao-Jiao , Wang Li
Published: July 2023

Cellulose membrane (CM) was successfully prepared by phase conversion (L–S). The adsorption performance of CM for Pb(ii) under different adsorption conditions was investigated, and the adsorption isothermal models and kinetic models were established. Additionally, desorption performance of CM for Pb(ii) under different conditions were also investigated. Scanning electron microscope (SEM), energy dispersion spectroscopy (EDS), and Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) methods were used to evaluate changes in the microstructure, element content, and functional groups of CM. The maximum adsorption capacity (343 mg·g−1) of Pb(ii) was achieved (initial concentration of Pb(ii) solution was 1,200 mg·L−1, pH was 4.5, adsorption time was 120 min, adsorption temperature was 30°C). Meanwhile, the process conforms to multi-molecular layer chemical adsorption. The desorption results showed that the maximum desorption capacity was 90.00 mg·g−1 (HNO3 concentration was 0.04 mol·L−1, desorption time was 120 min, desorption temperature was 60°C). SEM showed that the pores were saturated after adsorption of Pb(ii). Mapping and EDS analysis revealed that CM contained 72.14% Pb(ii) after adsorption. In the FT-IR curve, Pb(ii) chelated the C═O group of the CM. This method showed great potential for adsorption of Pb(ii) from aqueous solutions.
Influence of multi-modes contest on the dynamics of a quantum dot light emitting diode
Authors: Hussein Hawraa A. , Al Husseini Hussein B.
Published: July 2023

The effects of quick mode-competition phenomena on the dynamics of semiconductor quantum dot light-emitting diode (QDLED) are the subject of theoretical investigations in this study. The analyses are based on numerical simulations of the superposed multi-mode rate equations, which take into account the inherent fluctuations related to the spontaneous emission. The modal photon number and the injected electron number are reserved correlated during the multimode sources’ numerical generating process. Based on a self-consistent model, the optical frequency w effects which result in competition phenomena among lighting modes are introduced. The phenomenon of mode-competition is used to explain how noise sources affect it. Mode-competition processes cause instantaneous coupling between variations in mode intensity, which leads to instability in the dynamics of the modes and changes the state of operation. Over a broad range of carriers and photon rates (including the capture rate of the witting layer (WL) into the dot, the photon output rate in the optical mode, and the nonradiative decay rates of the number of carriers in the QD and WL), the dynamics of modes and the characteristics of the output spectrum are investigated. Three types of operation are distinguished: jittering single mode, stable single mode, and stable multimode.
Heat transfer enhancement of heat exchanger using rectangular channel with cavities
Authors: Malwe Prateek D. , Mukayanamath Aarti , Panchal Hitesh , Gupta Naveen Kumar , Prakash Chander , Abdul Zahra Musaddak Maher
Published: July 2023

Heat transfer enhancement is required for numerous situations, i.e., gas turbines, nuclear power plants, micro and macro scale heat transfer, airfoil cooling, electronic cooling, semiconductors, biomedical and combustion chamber lines, etc. One of the prominent ways of increasing the heat transfer coefficient from the surface of a heat exchanger is by moving the position of the thermal boundary layer to make it either thinner or break the same partially. It requires making use of an increased surface area/fins. Accordingly, the research progressed in heat transfer enhancement by using concavities/dimples of the heat exchanger surfaces to improve the heat transfer coefficient and heat transfer rate. These impregnations are made on the internal flow tubes/surfaces of the heat exchanger surfaces. The present research work aims at the experimental investigation of a heat exchanger to determine the airflow pattern and computation of heat transfer rate on the dimpled surfaces. This research work will be beneficial and applicable to heat transfer enhancement applications like micro heat transfer, where space constraint is considered. The geometries considered for the experiment include flat plates and dimpled surfaces. The parameters like Reynolds number (varied from 20,000 to 50,000), dimple depth to imprint diameter ratio (varied from 0.2 to 0.4), and heater input to the test plates (varied from 75 to 120 W) are considered for the comparisons. The results with dimpled surfaces are compared with the flat plate surfaces having no dimples. The Reynolds and Nusselt numbers rise in direct proportion to the heater input. For pin fin and dimpled plate, the ratio of Nusselt number to area average Nusselt number drops for 75 W and 100 W input. The dimpled plate with a ratio of 0.3 between imprint diameter to dimple depth had the highest ratio of Nusselt number to Nusselt number value for the entire group.
100-Gbps per-channel all-optical wavelength conversion without pre-amplifiers based on an integrated nanophotonic platform
Authors: Zhao Ping , He Zonglong , Shekhawat Vijay , Karlsson Magnus , Andrekson Peter A.
Published: July 2023

All-optical wavelength conversion based on four-wave mixing attracts intense interest in many areas, especially in optical fiber communications, due to the advantages of femtosecond response, modulation-format transparency, and high flexibility in optical network management. In this paper, we present the first optical translation of 32-GBaud 16QAM signals with an integrated Si3N4 nonlinear nanophotonic waveguide. An on-chip continuous-wave conversion efficiency of up to −0.6 dB from S band to C band is achieved in the dispersion-engineered low-loss Si3N4 nonlinear waveguide that is back-end compatible with complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor processes. The high conversion efficiency avoids the use of external optical amplifiers for signal demodulation. The converted idler is successfully received with a sensitivity penalty of less than 0.5 dB. Moreover, pre-amplifier-free multichannel wavelength conversion of over-100-Gbps coherent signals in C band is also demonstrated using the same Si3N4 nanophotonic waveguide via changing the pump wavelength, which shows good flexibility in all-optical signal processing. Additionally, wavelength conversion with a bandwidth over 100 nm can be expected by optimizing the current Si3N4 nanophotonic waveguide, which is promising for commercial coherent fiber communications and has bright prospects in various areas including optical signal processing, imaging, optical spectroscopy, and quantum optics.
Beam-steering metasurfaces assisted coherent optical wireless multichannel communication system
Authors: Tao Jin , You Quan , Yang Chao , Li Zile , Deng Liangui , Wu Mian , Luo Ming , Wu Lin , Li Chao , Liu Zichen , He Zhixue , Xiao Xi , Zheng Guoxing , Yu Shaohua
Published: July 2023

The metasurface based beam-steering devices with the advantages of large steering angles, arbitrary channels and ultra-compactness have played an important role for data allocation and exchange in the optical wireless communication. However, the current metasurface based optical wireless communication systems are mainly on intensity modulation and direct detection (IM/DD), which shows a relative lower transmission capacity, lower received optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) and complexity of system. In this study, a bidirectional multichannel optical wireless system enabled by a polarization independent metasurface with coherent modulation and reception is designed and experimentally demonstrated, which exhibits exclusive 100 Gbps coherent optical signals to multiusers with their own wavelengths, 2 m free space distance and field of view of 20° × 20°. In addition, the proposed system can support optical broadcasting system with capacity of 900 Gbps. The demonstrated metasurface assisted optical wireless communication system merges the optical coherent communication techniques and emerging concept of metasurface, which reduces the complexity and cost of the system while contributing a high transmission capacity, opening a new avenue for high performance optical wireless communications.
(E)-2-((E)-4-(2,6,6-trimethylcyclohex-1-en-1-yl)but-3-en-2-ylidene)hydrazine-1-carbothioamide C14H23N3S1
Authors: Rong Zeng , Cong Huang , Yu-Fang Wu , Da-Yong Peng , Shang-Xing Chen
Published: July 2023

[C14H23N3S1], monoclinic, P21/c (no. 14), a = 15.1642(8) Å, b = 6.9215(3) Å, c = 15.2182(7) Å, β = 112.675(2)°, V = 1473.83(12) Å3, Z = 4, R

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Terminal Ballistics of Stone-Tipped Atlatl Darts and Arrows: Results From Exploratory Naturalistic Experiments
Authors: Pettigrew Devin B. , Garnett Justin , Ryals-Luneberg Caden , Vance Eric A.
Published: July 2023

This study describes an effective protocol for naturalistic archaeological weapons experiments that improves cross-validation with controlled experiments and allows testing of multiple hypotheses. Stone-tipped atlatl darts and arrows were launched by skilled users against fresh carcasses, with high-speed cameras and radar guns capturing details of ballistic performance, impacts to bone and stone armatures, and other variables. The results pertaining to terminal ballistics in soft tissues are presented, with implications for what made ancient hunting projectiles effective and can be observed archaeologically. Fine-grained knappable stones seem to produce sharper armatures that can dramatically improve penetration, and presumably, lethality. Two commonly used metrics by archaeologists for estimating armature efficacy, tip cross-sectional area (TCSA), and perimeter (TCSP), are not among the significant variables for capturing penetration depth in soft tissues. However, armatures with larger TCSAs tend to be fitted to larger shafts that carry more energy and penetrate more deeply, providing one method for predicting wounding potential. The variability within weapon systems means that isolating efficacy to individual variables, such as tip cross-sectional size of stone armatures, can lead to erroneous interpretations.
Changes and continuities in second person address pronoun usage in Bogotá Spanish
Authors: Fernández-Mallat Víctor , Barrero David
Published: July 2023

In this article, we provide further evidence that Bogotá Spanish is transitioning from being an extensively usted-using variety into one in which tú is preferred in informal interaction by analyzing survey data through a quantitative approach, and metalinguistic commentary through a qualitative approach. Our data show that tú is mainly thought of as a productive way to convey proximity. At the same time, our data show that, despite this change in second person preference, usted and sumercé persist in familiar address, albeit at rates considerably lower than tú. Usted is particularly frequent among males in same-gender dyads because it allows them to avoid the possible connotations of effeminacy that tú may have in that specific context. Sumercé is frequently selected in addressing older relatives and individuals from the countryside because it is seen as being capable of conveying respect and affection simultaneously. Moreover, sumercé is seen as a sign of local identity capable of distinguishing Bogotá Spanish from other national varieties with vos, which is marginal in our data. Our findings are best seen through the proposal that address forms may gain specific meanings within their particular context of use, despite having more conventional meanings attached to them.