bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
A socio-hydrological journey around the Wadi Merguellil in central Tunisia
Authors: Jerbi Hamza , Massuel Sylvain , Riaux Jeanne , Leduc Christian , Tarhouni Jamila
Published: September 2022

The Wadi Merguellil, the main watercourse of the Merguellil basin in central Tunisia, has experienced an extremely marked socio-hydrological evolution. It is currently intermittent over most of its course, but the statements of farmers and archival records reveal that this was not the case at the beginning of the last century. They testify their nostalgia for a past when water was easily mobilized from the wadi using traditional irrigation canals. As well, the spatial patterns of irrigation and the organization of social groups around the Wadi look very different from what it is now.  Wind back the clock 100 years to the early 20th century, the Wadi Merguellil base flow was fed by the overflow of regional aquifers and the agriculture development was maintained thanks to the irrigation from this flow. However, things came to a head in the 1975’s, an exploitation scheme was implemented in order to drop the groundwater level of the regional aquifers to a target depth so as to reduce '' losses '' by evaporation in the Wadi Merguellil. This scheme was based on a simple resource displacement to limit water "losses" but around the wadi, there are also farmers for which the wadi represents a means of subsistence. Thus, drying up of the Wadi Merguellil has forced farmers to abandon the irrigation canals and opt for the installation of pumps and deep wells. This retroaction of farmers to the hydrological change contributed to further disturb the hydrological budget and led to a generalized groundwater level drop of 37 m over the last 50 years and an inversion of hydraulic gradients. In fact, the exploitation scheme was intended to satisfy all stakeholders but it was based exclusively on hydrodynamic considerations without taking into account the evolution of society around the wadi. The results of this work are in line with researches in socio-hydrology that call for a deeper integration of social aspects into management plans to ensure the sustainable development of water resources.
An 11-year record of wintertime snow-surface energy balance and sublimation at 4863 m a.s.l. on the Chhota Shigri Glacier moraine (western Himalaya, India)
Authors: Mandal Arindan , Angchuk Thupstan , Azam Mohd Farooq , Ramanathan Alagappan , Wagnon Patrick , Soheb Mohd , Singh Chetan
Published: September 2022

Abstract. Analysis of surface energy balance (SEB) at the glacier/snow surface is the most comprehensive way to explain the atmosphere–glacier/snow
interactions, but that requires extensive data. In this study, we have analysed an 11-year (2009–2020) record of the meteorological dataset from
an automatic weather station installed at 4863 ma.s.l. (above sea level) on a lateral moraine of the Chhota Shigri Glacier, western Himalaya. The study was
carried out over the winter months (December to April) to understand SEB drivers and snow loses through sublimation. Furthermore, this study
examines the role of cloud cover on SEB and turbulent heat fluxes. The turbulent heat fluxes were calculated using the bulk-aerodynamic method,
including stability corrections. The net short-wave radiation was the primary energy source. However, the turbulent heat fluxes dissipated a
significant amount of energy. The cloud cover plays an important role in limiting the incoming short-wave radiation by about 70 %. It also
restricts the turbulent heat fluxes by more than 60 %, resulting in lower snow sublimation. During winter, turbulent latent heat flux
contributed the largest proportion (64 %) in the total SEB, followed by net radiation (25 %) and sensible heat flux (11 %). Sublimation
rates were 3 times higher in clear-sky than overcast conditions, indicating a strong role of cloud cover in shaping favourable conditions for
turbulent latent heat flux by modulating the near-surface boundary layer conditions. Dry air, along with high snow-surface temperature and wind
speed, favours sublimation. Besides, we also observed that strong and cold winds, possibly through mid-latitude western disturbances, impede
sublimation by bringing high moisture content to the region and cooling the snow surface. The estimated snow sublimation fraction was
16 %–42 % of the total winter snowfall at the study site. This study substantiates that the snow sublimation is an essential variable to be
considered in glaciohydrological modelling at the high-mountain Himalayan glacierised catchments.
IDENTIFIKASI TUMBUHAN PAKU YANG BERPOTENSI EPIFIT PADA BATANG TANAMAN KELAPA SAWIT (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.)
Authors: Jusri Jusri , Yanti Nilda , Poerwanty Henny , Sofyan Sofyan
Published: September 2022

Dalam upaya meningkatkan produksi dan produktifitas kelapa sawit maka perlu dilakukan pemeliharaan terhadap kebun kelapa sawit, salah satunya yaitu dengan adanya pengelolaan gulma yang tepat. Salah satu yang perlu dilakukan yaitu pengendalian tumbuhan paku yang berpotensi epifit pada batang tanaman kelapa sawit. Tujuan dari penulisan tugas akhir ini yaitu untuk mengetahui jenis- jenis  tumbuhan  paku  yang  berpotensi  sebagai  tumbuhan  epifit  pada  batang. Tanaman kelapa sawit, serta mengidentifikasi akibat yang ditimbulkan terhadap tanaman kelapa sawit. Selain itu untuk menentukan tumbuhan paku yang lebih tinggi populasinya di kebun kelapa sawit PT. Perkebunan Nusantara XIV Unit. Kebun Keera-Maroangin. Tugas akhir ini diharapkan dapat menjadi bahan informasi  yang bermanfaat  bagi  perusahaan  dalam  melakukan  pemeliharaan maupun dalam upaya peningkatan hasil produksi serta produktivitas pada perkebunan kelapa sawit. Metode yang digunakan adalah purposive sampling yang dilakukan pada TBM2, TBM3, dan TM dengan mengumpulkan data mengenai   jenis tumbuhan paku epifit, jumlah populasi dan pengaruh yang ditimbulkan. Jenis tumbuhan paku yang ditemukan berpotensi epifit pada batang tanaman kelapa sawit   yaitu ada 8 jenis spesies dari 3 jenis famili yaitu, paku harupat (dryopteridaceae), paku tupai (davalliaceae), paku kaki tupai (davalliaceae), pakis kutil (polypodiaceae), pakis staghorm (polypodiaceae), paku sisik naga (polypodiaceae), paku daun kepala tupai (polypodiaceae), paku simbar pedang (polypodiaceae). Dari 8 jenis spesies tumbuhan paku yang ditemukan, jenis yang paling banyak ditemui dari ke 3 plot yaitu paku harupat dengan total 732 populasi yang menyebar secara mengelompok diseluruh plot, sedangkan jenis yang paling sedikit ditemui yaitu pakis kutil dengan total 22 populasi yang menyebar secara teratur.
APLIKASI PUPUK HAYATI PENAMBAT N TERHADAP PERTUMBUHAN DAN HASIL KEDELAI EDAMAME (Glycine max (L.) Merr.)
Authors: Kumara Danis Mustika , Jumadi Rahmad
Published: September 2022

Kedelai edamame (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) atau yang kerap disebut kedelai sayur merupakan makanan sehat dengan kandungan gizi tinggi. Kandungan gizinya yang tinggi menyebabkan kedelai edamame banyak diminati sehingga terjadi peningkatan permintaan pasar. Tingginya permintaan kedelai edamame harus diimbangi dengan produksi yang memadai. Peningkatan produksi edamame dilakukan dengan cara perbaikan kondisi lahan pertanian dan pemenuhan unsur hara yang dibutuhkan tanaman. Kedelai edamame merupakan tanaman leguminosa yang mampu bersimbiosis dengan bakteri rhizobium. Simbiosis keduanya membentuk bintil akar yang berfungsi menambat N udara dan mengubahnya menjadi bentuk yang dapat diserap tanaman. Penelitan ini dilaksanakan pada Februari hingga Mei 2021 di Lahan Penelitian Fakultas Pertanian Univesitas Muhammadiyah Gresik, Desa Klangonan, Kecamatan Kebomas, Kabupaten Gresik. Bahan yang digunakan meliputi kedelai edamame varietas Ryokkoh, pupuk hayati rhizobium ‘Rhizoka’, pupuk NPK, fungisida, pestisida dan arang sekam. Penelitian ini terdiri dari 4 perlakuan, yakni H0 (tanpa pupuk hayati rhizobium), H1 (pupuk hayati rhizobium 50% dosis saran), H2 (pupuk hayati rhizobium 100% dosis saran), H3 (pupuk hayati rhizobium 150% dosis saran). Variabel yang diamati adalah tinggi tanaman, diameter batang, jumlah polong, bobot polong, panjang akar dan jumlah bintil. Analisa data menggunakan Analysis of Variance 5%, jika terdapat perbedaan nyata dilanjutkan dengan Duncan Multiple Range Test 5%. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa aplikasi pupuk hayati 50% dosis saran mampu meningkatkan variabel diameter batang, jumlah polong dan panjang akar, namun hasil tersebut tidak berbeda nyata dengan perlakuan lainnya.
FLOWS OF FEELING
Authors: Vilashinin Cooppan
Published: September 2022

Postcolonial studies has often figured colonialism as trauma and the “post” as an unresolved spectral remainder of that initial violence. In what ways does the critical turn to affect reshape this analysis of colonialism and open up alternative archives for the reading of postcolonial sensations, emotions, and memories? Affect is notoriously undefinable. The question of measure punctuates the critical debate on the category, surfacing in questions such as whether affect and emotion are equivalent; whether affect is or is not “in” language, whether affect is characterised by the speed of movement or the fixity of instantaneous response in the form of a visceral “shock.” Tracing several genealogies of affect in conjunction with a reading of Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide, this essay suggests that affect offers a critical alternative to the haunted temporality and melancholic work often associated with the postcolonial novel.
WHAT DOES SANSKRIT AESTHETICS OFFER THE CONTEMPORARY NOVEL?
Authors: NIKHIL GOVIND
Published: September 2022

This paper will concern itself with a close reading of a novel (Sunflowers in the Dark) by one of India’s most revered contemporary women writers – Krishna Sobti (1925-). Through a reading of this novel, I will try and understand some of the conditions an affective architecture needs to take into account. Sobti’s work is often celebrated for its (sexual) exuberance – I would try and read how exuberance also has its companion in all the other mixed sibling affects of silence, isolation, courage, despair. Indeed the power of the literary might well be the irreducible miscibility of affect. Such a reading of affect as a fundamental axis might also open a new way of re-entering traditional Indian debates on the aesthetics – the background of traditional notions of aesthetics in India will form the initial, necessary background in the first part of the paper, to the reading of this contemporary Sobti novel.
IMMORTAL NIRBHAYA – FROM VICTIM TO VICTOR AROUND THE GLOBE
Authors: DEEPSIKHA CHATTERJEE AND CLAUDIA ORENSTEIN
Published: September 2022

Yael Farber takes a real episode of brutal domination and power, hatred and violence, horror and bloodshed, shame and anguish, and creates a stage worthy award winning production that is touring the world. Responding to the infamous gang rape and murder of a young woman on a bus in Delhi in 2012, which engendered protests throughout India and a national reassessment of the place and perception of women in Indian society as well as the prevalence of sexual violence, this production, has stirred the hearts of audiences. This article aims to understand the power and strength of Nirbhaya and the show’s relationship to the real events and their impact nationally, and, on the other hand, assesses the intercultural nature of the project, with its international cast, its South African director, its UK premiere and tour, and its subsequent New York performance. Born from a collaboration of committed performers and guided by Farber’s artistic vision, Nirbhaya is a unique theatrical response to the explosive events of December 2012 within the Indian theatrical community, in its simultaneous incorporation of confessional material, its use of ritual and poetic elements within a strong theatrical structure and its approaches for reaching audiences.
SPREADING GENDER EGALITARIAN ISLAM IN INDONESIA
Authors: HUSEIN MUHAMMAD
Published: September 2022

This narrative draws on conversations between Kyai Husein Muhammad and Margot Badran reconstructed by the latter upon careful review of recorded discussions that began in the Netherlands at the Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) in Leiden in 2003 and continued in Jakarta in 2004. Kyai Husein, as he is usually called, is religious scholar and self-identified Islamic feminist. In recounting his life trajectory Kyai Husein reveals a journey from Islamic modernism to Islamic feminism in Indonesia. His story demonstrates how Islamic feminism is practiced as it is being constructed. It shows the rise and spread of Islamic feminism in the hinterland dispelling the notion that egalitarian Islam cannot flourish in a rural environment. Kyai Husein points out that Islamic feminists and Islamic radicalists (to use his word) are both concerned with women and gender but in diametrically opposed ways. The narrative published below captures conversations that occurred nearly a decade and a half ago and thus must be read as part of the historical record and a prelude to the present.
THE NATIONAL LIBERATION STRUGGLE AND ISLAMIC FEMINISMS IN SOUTH AFRICA
Authors: NA’EEM JEENAH
Published: September 2022

In this article, I investigate the impact of the national liberation struggle on the rise of Islamic feminisms in South Africa. Muslims form less than two per cent of the population in South Africa yet their minority status has not meant their exclusion from political life, including the anti-apartheid struggle. Their involvement in ‘the struggle’ has had many consequences for the Muslim community including encouraging the emergence of Islamic feminist tendencies. I argue that the development of political Islam in South Africa in the 1980s and its interaction with the national liberation struggle helped give rise to Islamic feminisms that flourished from 1990 to the year 1998 when the Islamic feminist tendency began to decline.

 

The article was originally published in Women’s Studies International Forum 28 (2006) 27-41.
THE CONFLUENCE OF ISLAMIC FEMINISM AND PEACEBUILDING: LESSONS FROM BOSNIA
Authors: ZILKA SPAHIĆ ŠILJAK
Published: September 2022

This paper maps the closely intertwined trajectories of Islamic feminism and peacebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It examines how the socio-political context of the region influenced the emergence of peacebuilding and Islamic feminism, and how secular human rights and feminist organisations provided a fertile ground for female Bosnian activists to practice feminist theology even before they were exposed to the theoretical underpinnings of Islamic feminism. Through examples of notable feminists and human rights activists in the region, as well as projects committed to raising awareness about topics such as gender-equality, peace, and reconciliation, the paper explores the enduring relationship between Islamic feminism and peacebuilding. The language of religion and feminism has proven to be a useful tool for promoting peacebuilding and dialogue within the community, while at the same time secular human rights organisations continue to provide the only space for engagement with Islamic feminism in a patriarchal society.
THE NECESSARY LINKAGE BETWEEN JUSTICE AND EQUALITY: TURKEY
Authors: MARGOT BADRAN
Published: September 2022

I presented this paper at the International Women and Justice Summit organised by the KADEM (Kadin ve Domokrasi Derneği), an NGO, and the Ministry of the Family and Social Policy in Istanbul, November 24-25, 2014. The paper was assigned to Session Two on Social Justice for Women: Different Dimensions of Oppression: Gender! Justice? Or Equality? At the conference in which the President of Turkey Recep Erdoğan in his opening speech spoke against the idea of equality as alien, laying claim to justice without equality. At the Summit opening President Recep Erdoğan gave a speech setting the tone for advocating justice over equality. A small selection of his statements illustrates his position. “You cannot place women and men into equal positions. Their creation, nature and very constitution are different.” “What women need is not equality, but rather equity, in other words, justice.” “Our religion, Islam, puts women in a special position. What is this special position? Motherhood. Motherhood is unique to women. It is something that cannot be attained by men. It is the highest level.” The paper makes an Islamic argument for gender equality grounded in the Qur’anic affirmation that all human beings (insan) are created equal observing that this is reflected as well in universal instruments. The paper points out that equality is not to be confused with sameness or uniformity. References to biological difference are found in the Qur’an but it does not ordain different social roles for women and men. This paper examines the idea and practice of multiple social roles that may be freely chosen. It insists that there can be no justice without human equality.
The Deranged Femme Fatale in Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl
Authors: Arsha Subbi
Published: September 2022

Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl presents one of the most intelligently portrayed deranged heroines in recent times. She attains the tag of a Femme Fatale archetype. The classical Femme Fatales delved within the outline that conventional patriarchy and society had set for her. The Femme Fatales have taken on various forms and demeanors since their arrival into the literary and cultural arena. They have been the ‘preying’ mantis, the bloodsucking vampire, a lethal siren or wanton courtesan. The protagonist of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl, Amy Elliot Dunne represents the most evolved form of Femme Fatale depictions.  She chooses to be the excruciatingly sly beauty who attempts an absolute annihilation of the patriarchal structures around her. Her childhood trauma and subsequent psychological disability goes into making her the Femme Fatale that she later becomes. Amy Dunne’s psychological state is not what we call ‘normal’; however, she turns this disability into her armor, as well as her weapon, to defy the patriarchal norms she is forced to adhere to. Thus, by making her disability her shield, she turns out to be the most evolved form of the Femme Fatale character type.
Complementarity of Gendered Spaces in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony
Authors: Arya B.
Published: September 2022

Gendered concepts arise out of reflections on the experiences, prejudices or orientations of one sex over the other. There are stereotyped gender roles in every society for both male and female, which could differ according to societal norms. However, regarding gender aspects, there is no commonality among cultures. It is said that women were always considered inferior to men from days of yore. This generalisation may hold good for Western patriarchal societies where women were restricted to private spheres, but it does not essentially apply to women in Native American communities. Laguna Pueblo, a Native American community, for instance, is a matrilineal society whose cultural and religious traditions are strongly influenced by female figures and deities. Leslie Marmon Silko, one of the distinguished Native American writers instrumental in the revival of Native American literature, writes with a strong sense of affiliation with and allegiance to her native land and culture. Her novel Ceremony illustrates how native ideologies seek to balance a more nuanced relationship or complementarity of genders. There is even a persistent impulse to romanticize the feminine in opposition to the masculine. This paper explores the gendered spaces in the matrilineal society of Laguna as depicted in Silko’s Ceremony.
SMARTHAVICHARAM
Authors: ANITHA S.
Published: September 2022

This document is noteworthy for the arguments that it puts forth on the question of the chastity trial regarding the credibility of the woman in question.
EXAMPLE IS BETTER THAN PRECEPT IN REVOLUTION
Authors: SUJA T.V.
Published: September 2022

This article summarises the responses of three men, M.K. Kumaran, V.T .Bhattathirippad  and the writer to Thathri and her life .
WHAT BEFELL THATHRI NEXT?
Authors: PRIYA JOSE K.
Published: September 2022

This offers a glimpse into the probable conditions enveloping Thathri before, during and after the trial which have left us guessing about her whereabouts. By walking down the memory lane with persons connected to Thathri in different measures and degrees and piecing together their reminiscences, the author deftly weaves the fragmentary recollections and associations into a cohesive whole, resulting in something akin to a study in unarchived history. The end product is open-ended, granting the reader the right to imagine and create. The article raises a lot of questions which need to be addressed in earnest.
VICHARAMS: EVENTAL POINTERS, POSSIBILITIES AND INTENSITIES IN LIMINAL PHASES
Authors: MATHEW A. VARGHESE
Published: September 2022

This article discusses the trial of Thathri in terms of the sociological concepts of space and liminality, and illustrates how both the communitarian domain and the modernizing order in Kerala had significant differences in terms of the treatment meted out to the female gender, compared to other orders within the Indian subcontinent.
CHOICE AND CHASTITY: QUEST FOR SELF-DISCOVERY IN ISHTI
Authors: MADHU IRAVANKARA
Published: September 2022

Ishti (2015), the directorial debut of Dr. G. Prabha, is the first ever Sanskrit movie to handle a socio-political theme. Smarthavicharamas such figures in it only tangentially; in fact though the stage is set for the spectacular event the accused—both the woman and the man—walk out on the decadent system and express their quest for freedom which is possible only after discovering their own inner selves. The rationale for including the article in this volume is that it vividly and vehemently visualises the Brahminical economic structures and belief systems which necessitated many a custom including chastity trials. The film is yet to have a theatrical release as it is embroiled in a litigation.
Bhang ya Bong? Representation of Cannabis in Selected Hindi Film Songs
Authors: Sahil Rathod
Published: September 2022

The lack of discourse on different uses of cannabis in visual media has resulted in a unidimensional understanding of different forms and methods in which cannabis is consumed. To understand how visual representation often dictates and reinforces hegemonic notions of culturally ambiguous objects such as cannabis, this paper looks at  selected film songs from across different eras of Hindi Cinema, and probes the manner in which politics and discourse operate in constructing meaning at the level of production of such texts. It uses theories connecting representation and discourse, adopting the lens of 'symbolic frameworks' as suggested by Paul Manning to make a textual and discourse analysis of the selected texts. The paper argues that songs depicting consumption of bhang attach images of festivity and  religiosity to normalise its consumption in certain contexts, while songs where consumption happens in the form of smoking marijuana and/or charas images of dysfunction and social alienation are invoked. This paper concerns itself primarily with semiotics and does not look at the caste and gender dimensions of visual representation surrounding cannabis in the selected texts. Those approaches can become a full-length study in themselves and bring a much sharper focus to the politics of representation affecting a more balanced discourse on cannabis.
Locating the Grotesque: A Meta-theoretical Reading
Authors: Prasida P
Published: September 2022

Authors and artists have progressively tried to capture the crisis of human life in their works. For such representations an adept tool is required and the ‘grotesque’ is artfully brought to fore by authors and artists as the most efficacious artistic weapon for mirroring the intricate reality and inherent contradictions in human life. The grotesque has become the most coveted and the, “the most genuine style” of modern art. The word ‘grotesque’ has been received differently across the changing times. The article seeks to understand the multifaceted understanding of the term ‘grotesque’ with reference to the different ideologies, disciplines, thought practices and representations in sync with the spirit of the age it is associated with.
Pause, Click: Photography, an Introductory Reading
Authors: Farah Zachariah
Published: September 2022

Photographs are one of the most celebrated kinds of images. As a medium of representation, they arrest our attention and constantly confront us at different levels: emotional, cognitive, physical and interpersonal. The article primarily focuses on photographs as visual texts and how readers or viewers negotiate meanings from them. It attempts to analyze a set of photographs by employing the principles of critical hermeneutics. The task of hermeneutics is a continuous process to fundamentally interpret the photographs and give scope for different readings. Photography can be treated as a language, acquiring meaning through the cultural conventions, and conscious and unconscious processes, which cannot be merely reduced to subject matter, visual style and authorial intentions.
The Figuration of Art, History and Self: Art Spiegelman’s Maus as a Palimpsest
Authors: Ajay Amrita
Published: September 2022

The winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1991, Art Spiegelman’s Maus is an iconic work of world art. Seldom does one come across a work that challenges the parameters of its own creation in such a radical way. A graphic novel that is both biographical and autobiographical, history and fiction, memoir and comic art, pushing generic integrities to collapse upon themselves, Maus has deserved the critical and popular success it has garnered worldwide.

A testimonial to the never-ending horrors of the Holocaust, Maus has popularly been read as an attempt at exorcism of the author’s demons, and perhaps with him of a race caught in the warps of history and time. As the narrator tries to tell the story of his life, through the story of his father’s experiences in Nazi Poland, he creates theriomorphic creatures to define the parameters of human existence in the sub-human dimensions of unspeakable nightmares of history. Disney’s beloved Mickey Mouse and the cat and mouse chase of children’s stories assume Kafkaesque grotesqueness in the mice, cats, pigs and sundry animals that ‘people’ this authorial world divided across religious and political affiliations. Through the passive aggressive narrative of the Oedipal struggle between the father and the son emerges the story of lives caught in the whirlpool of timespans, continents, memories and generations.

My paper seeks to explore the complexity of the visual-autobiographical articulations of selfhood through the intersections of genre, history and language. The layers of remove that frame this novel can be understood as the constructive aesthetic of Spiegelman’s effort in illustrating and writing Maus. The ironical self-distancing of the author and characters make this work of self-writing-illustrating unique beyond the pale of mere self-reflexivity. It is not simple a book about the writing of a book that encapsulates a piece of history. It goes a step ahead to talk about identity as fraught in the process of remembering, writing, re-writing and reading. Spiegelman’s narrator Art is a mouse on account of his Jewish roots that cannot be shaken off, but assumes the mask of one, too, because the task of writing and publishing need one to make a mask out of one’s most personal sentiments. My paper further argues that the remembered history in Maus can only ever be constructed one, which complicates the understanding of the text as a testimonial/memoir/history. By exploring the visual and verbal language along with the paratextual elements of the novel, I will finally posit that Maus is a text that writes and re-writes itself across a range of selfhoods, meaning-making and search for closure that is perpetually deferred and thus unreachable.
Our Duty to Morality
Authors: Dhody Natesan Sarabjeet
Published: September 2022

Societal violence against children in general and sexual violence against the girl child are rising alarmingly. Seen as soft victims, neither multiple state legislations nor natural laws of morality have been able to keep them safe. The issue becomes contentious when violence is perpetrated along gender, class, and religious identities. The justice system is being co-opted to stand with the oppressors, intent on preventing the voice of support to the victims from rising, effectively shrinking and shutting down spaces for displaying solidarity and social dissent. A scene India witnessed in its horrific intent in 2018 in what came to be called the Kathua Rape Case.

Through the perspective of life writing, this paper will reflect on how an individual response to this heart-wrenching event developed into an organic community protest in a calm seaside town of South India, hundreds of miles removed from the mountains of Kashmir. When the State denied permission to assemble, fearing a larger discontent, the civil society demonstrated its resolve and coalesced to raise a silent voice against the violence and brutal molestation of an eight-year-old child. All this peacefully, without defying authority, and without breaking any rules.
Beginnings of Gender Discourses in Modern Keralam: Revisiting Early Women's Magazines
Authors: Dr. Shalini. M. Dr. Shalini. M.
Published: September 2022

Gender has been a buzzword of the 21st century.  Gender, another word for sexual difference, a column that asked one to spell out if you are a male or female, has become a term loaded with meanings in the contemporary world.  Despite differing opinions on how gender is understood, contemporary critical theory has identified gender as one of the fundamental organizing principles around which social life is shaped.  Biology as the final destination in connection with gender identity was questioned in the 1980s by Judith Butler, who took cues from earlier feminists like Simone de Beauvoir and Monique Wittig and suggested that women are an imagined group.  Concepts like femininity and masculinity, which were until then considered as decided only by biology, were interrogated and found as contingent categories.  The performative and socio-cultural aspects of gender proposed by Butler changed the way we look at the category gender and issues pertaining to it (Butler, Gender Trouble). However, old norms and prejudices too exist along with these new propositions, asserting themselves and finding newer ways to sell older essences in new bottles.  Therefore, the contemporary world witnesses and bears the anxieties of a gendered society while also producing discourses on gender neutrality and postgenderism.  Nivedita Menon explains the paradoxical ways in which gender is used in India.  She looks at how on the one hand, it has challenged the notion of woman as a category and how it gets more regressively used as a synonym for woman in state developmental projects on the other hand (Menon 94).
An Introduction to the Early Malayalam Women’s Magazines
Authors: Dr Teena Antony
Published: September 2022

Malayalam magazines for women are usually analysed as an adjunct to mass media studies or as part of the larger cultural sphere of Kerala. There are very few studies on the twenty-five or more magazines published for women in colonial Kerala as a field in itself. Women’s magazines published during the colonial times focused more on their education and progress than providing entertainment. In Kerala, they were also owned, edited, and authored by some of the early feminists. As such these magazines provide a vibrant women’s history different from the canonical history of Kerala. The ideas and issues discussed in the magazines informed and shaped the public sphere in Kerala for decades into the future. This paper is in the form of an exploratory study of the field. It probes the intended readers, the writers, and the concepts and topics that were under discussion in early Malayalam women’s magazines.
Afghanistan, War Crisis, and Gender Apartheid: A Comment on Afghan Women as War Victims and Nullified ‘Objects’ of Human Rights.
Authors: Suparna Roy
Published: September 2022

Gender has always remained an alarming concern for patriarchal power discourse and thereby has been omitted from securing an important place of discussion in parity to the world’s economic, political, social, and cultural crisis. Recent control of the Taliban’s rule on Afghanistan has reflected and repeated the historical totalitarian sense of dictatorship and gender apartheid; so that, the rule of ‘phallus’ in controlling, re-presenting, and depicting the lives of all women is started. Alarms of ‘girls at risk’, ‘women being abolished from professional spaces’ soon emerged with the Taliban’s rule. The news and report portrayed how the Taliban treated women as ‘objects’ and machines of ‘reproduction’, where the vaginal authority is smashed with ‘legitimate’ phallus, and thus the vaginal bodies turn into the ‘sex-slaves’ and servants to serve the Taliban rulers. Power has a crucial role in ordering the central tendency of ‘bodies’; the Taliban target is to have the power; a power that is allowing countries like China, the U.S.A to dominate. It is important to note more than Pakistan, it is China’s support (secretly) that is permitting the Taliban to accelerate. Gender and Power dynamics always altered domains of inheritance and are associated and inclined more deeply towards the white-cis-heterosexual-phallus (gender) in comparison to any other. Women as subjects have always lacked power because restrictions and marking on the accessibility to ‘gain power’ were blurred. Politics and phallus are complementary power dynamics in operation that uses Gender as an operative tool to create ‘crises’ for one and support for the other. Where the power-play within the phallogocentric symbolic order creates the suffering veiled. Hence, my paper aims to present the deplorable condition of women under the Taliban’s rule and make a comparison of their position before 1996 and after that till the present.
Incorporation of lean methodology into the delivery of clinical training of advance nurse practitioners in urgent care
Authors: Ivan Koay
Published: September 2022

This pilot study was designed to investigate the ability of incorporating lean methodology into the delivery of medical education. The project worked within the academic remits of the University College Dublin (UCD), Master’s in Advanced Practice (Nursing) program, which provided the academic rigor for the project. Practical and procedural skills were taught based on an adapted version of the RNZCUC’s core skills list (CSL) Using a combination of Kaizen Burst (rapid improvements) in teaching skill sessions and Kanban Pull (the voice of the consumer), the project incorporated both lean methods into the delivery of teaching skills and knowledge. These techniques allow for better understanding, easy retention, and accelerated learning. This allows for a better learning experience to those completing the training program feeling confident in utilizing the skills learnt to treat patients presenting to urgent care clinics appropriately The project has shown a potential method for training of Advanced Nurse Practitioners (ANPs) to an accredited standard in urgent care with the use of lean methods in the delivery of skills and knowledge training. The ability for institutions to upskill and train the workforce would provide added benefits for workforce recruitment, development, and retention.
The Terra Comica between Mark Twain and Sherman Alexie
Authors: Holbrook Myrial Adel
Published: September 2022

Mark Twain and Sherman Alexie are at once an unlikely and a likely duo. A vast gulf of time, culture, and heritage separates them. What likens them is their shared celebrity status and iconic, irreverent humor. This paper undertakes a comparison between Twain and Alexie, not to diminish the important and idiosyncratic role of Native American humor, but rather to bring it into conversation with white humor, perhaps approaching a multiplex American humor. A comparison of two of their early works, Roughing It for Twain and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven for Alexie, to illuminate the ways in which both authors eschew the physical terrain of the West, instead monumentalizing a cacophonous, comical verbal landscape. Both authors, as public figures, also raise questions of what it means to monumentalize authors, and this paper gestures toward that dual pitfall and potential.
The Dark Posthuman
Authors: Polsky Stephanie
Published: September 2022

The Dark Posthuman: Dehumanization, Technology, and the Atlantic World explores how liberal humanism first enlivened, racialized, and gendered global cartographies, and how memory, ancestry, expression, and other aspects of social identity founded in its theories and practices made for the advent of the category of the posthuman through the dimensions of cultural, geographic, political, social, and scientific classification.

The posthuman is very much the product of world-building narratives that have their beginnings in the commercial franchise and are fundamentally rooted in science, governance, and economics around the hegemonic appropriation of environments and commodification of bodies that initially fuelled white settler life worlds and continue to be operational in the way we conceive of these worlds as continuous ontological formations. The want has always been for ownership of any of these dimensions of being without regard to condition, to not remain stranded as the subsidiary of another’s being, to another’s claim to humanity, and finally, to escape the suffocating confines of an instrumental ontology that suggests a subcategory of humanity without rights onto itself.

The Dark Posthuman distinguishes the posthuman’s place within both the liberal and neoliberal imaginary and reveals how its appearance first entrenched itself through the avarice of English settler colonialism, and subsequently, through the paranoia of American slavery. This same figure of the posthuman played a crucial role in the functional adaptation of Cold War behavioural cybernetics, and thereafter, in the fetishization of technology within the era of global financialization. The shadowing of this arrangement during and beyond the long duration of humanity’s domination of this world becomes the structural web work of this book.
Microorganismos presentes en las mascarillas usadas por la población de Pucallpa para la protección de la covid-19
Authors: Pari Quispe Dina , Torres Vargas Eldalaine , Mamani Flores Manuel , Ortiz Uribe Washington , Reátegui Ramos Paul Kevin , Mamani Zapana Enrique
Published: September 2022

The microorganisms present in the masks of the inhabitants of Pucallpa for the protection of COVID-19 were determined by collecting surgical masks, KN95 and cloth, used by the inhabitants from the districts of Campoverde, Yarinacocha, Manantay and Callería, obtaining 15 masks per district. The identification of mycoorganisms was carried out through biochemical (traditional method) and automated (Vitex) tests. Twelve bacterial species were isolated (Eneterobacter cloacae ssp cloacae, Entererobacter aerogenes, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae ssp pneunoniae, Raoltella ornithinolytica, Kocuria kristinae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Acinetobacter cacoacetocus, Proteus mirabilis, Proteus vulgaris, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Pseudomonas putidaand Staphylococcus epidermidis) distributed in 6 families as Eneterobateriaceae. Microcococcaceae, Moraxellaceae, Morganellaceae, Pseudomonadaceae and Staphylococcaceae. In the case of fungi, two families Trichocomaceae (Aspergillus spp) and Saccharomycetaceae (Candida famataand Candida parapsiliosis) were found. It was not possible to find the COVID-19 virus in the masks, since there was no evidence of the presence of the N gene, ORF1ab gene. The highest number of bacterial species corresponds to the Enterobacteriaceae family, recorded in the district of Campoverde and Yarinacocha, while Aspergillus spp. were recorded in the four districts.
PRODUCTIVITE TOTALE DES FACTEURS ET MODELES DE MESURE : choix judicieux de méthode d’analyse
Authors: MOBONDA Ricky MOLOKO , AMUNDE Francis ANYOLE , Y’ANGANDUA Jules Karl MBAY
Published: September 2022

The difference with new economic growth theories hypothesis and the Solow theory of growth have provided a new methodology framework. This framework established the sustainable choice of parametric measure and non-parametric measure of total productivity of factors(TPF).

Those choices which are depended to initial Solow hypothesis allow to release non-parametric analysis to parametric one. Especially, while time series datas or panel datas are used to set econometric method.

For this relevant analysis, the GMM lag use TFP like endogenous variable.
POLITIQUE MONETAIRE EN RDC : entre la crédibilité et l’optimalité.
Authors: MOBONDA Ricky MOLOKO , Y’ANGANDUA Jules Karl MBAY , SALAMA Thabita NAFISA , NYADRI Janvier EGUDRA , AMUNDE Francis ANYOLE , AKOMBOYO Senold TANDIA
Published: September 2022

The Central Congolese Bank have to choice between optimal monetary policy and credible monetary policy in order to avoid intertemporal incoherences (inflation and stabilization bias) generated by deviations. The lack of good trend of growth is an evidence that the leading of monetary policy is non efficient.

This analysis with GMM thanks to the Barro and Gordon model prove that the conception and management of monetary policy is claimed in DRC.
GESTION DES DECHETS MENAGERS ET SES CONSEQUENCES SOCIO-ECONOMICO-SANITAIRES : CAS DE LA VILLE DE KISANGANI EN REPUBLIQUE DEMOCRATIQUE DU CONGO.
Authors: BAELONGANDI Augustin SOMBO
Published: September 2022

This article showed the sanitary state in the optics of the management of domestic garbage that is in a pitiable state capable to create illnesses of all kind to the inhabitants of the city of Kisangani in DRC. Facing this situation that changes to pathology in all developing countries, we challenge the conscience of our leaders, intellectual, services committed for hygiene, purification and healthiness to take their responsibilities each to his level for the communal well-being and for the future of the humanity.
IMPACTO TRIBUTARIO EN LAS EMPRESAS MEXICANAS DE RECICLAJE
Authors: Alegría León Gabriel Bulmaro , Jiménez Tecillo Francisco Javier , Tosca Magaña Sergio Alfonso
Published: September 2022

The recycling industry in Mexico has been growing significantly as it contributes to the reduction of the amount of waste disposed of in landfills, by incineration or other means. This leads to a process for the treatment of waste, both industrial and domestic, which allows to introduce them into a production cycle of a product with the materials that compose them. For this reason, the tax authorities decided to regularize this type of industry due to the great impact it was having, since it did not have any regime with which it had to comply with its tax obligations. This led to the realization of a research where different sources have been consulted to know the tax impact on the companies dedicated to this area.
ETUDE DES FACTEURS D’OPTIMISATION DE LA VENTE DANS UNE ENTREPRISE TABACICOLE : « CAS DE LA GLOBAL MARKET MOVERS SARL »
Authors: Castro MBULA ABDI
Published: September 2022

The present research focuses on the study of the factors of sales optimization in a tobacco company. The reasons for undertaking this study were to identify and analyze the explanatory factors of the optimization of the sale in the commercial company in general and in a tobacco company in particular, in order to highlight their influence in the optimization of the productivity of this one and to have an idea on the evolution of the sales of this company in order to release the gaps which exists between the realized turnover compared to the various expenses related to the marketing and the distribution

The results of this study proved that the factors of optimization of the sale of the GMM/Isiro would be the implementation of an effective marketing policy which would bring the product closer to the consumers and a good management of its sales force by starting with the recruitment, the training, the remuneration, the animation, the control and the evaluation. The correlation coefficient is 0.4873 > 0 : therefore there is a presumption of a positive correlation between turnover (Yt) and marketing expenses (X_t), i.e. the two variables move in the same direction : if marketing expenses increase, turnover also increases and if marketing expenses decrease, turnover also decreases ; the coefficient of determination is 0. 2375 i.e. the model is globally explained at 23.75 % by the endogenous variable (the turnover) which depends on the exogenous variable (the marketing expenses); in other words on the 100% of the sales realized by the GMM, 23.75 % are realized according to the marketing expenses The remaining 76.25% are explained by other variables than marketing expenses such as preference, price, taste, environment, product availability or permanence, agent motivation, habit, etc.
GESTION DES MENAGES PAR DES FEMMES VENDEUSES DES POISSONS A UVIRA
Authors: LUPIKI MBATE , AKOBE KISUBI
Published: September 2022

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the state having almost resigned from its responsibilities with regard to the care of public officials and civil servants, the breach has opened up to married women to provide for the financial needs for the survival of households.

In addition to this irresponsibility of the Congolese State, in the East of the Republic, there are situations of political crises fueled by the proliferation of armed groups pushing some women in the city of Uvira to draw on their immediate and / or distant environment. means to enable them to cover family needs by supplying themselves with fish by relegating and reallocating their household functions. These relegations and reallocations of household functions by women fish sellers lead to dynamics that operate within their households as well as various consequences.
Human Talent and its importance in MSMEs in Mexico
Authors: Beatriz Diaz Diaz  , Gutiérrez M.A. Gladys Elena Mateos , Álvarez Dra. Aída Dinorah García
Published: September 2022

Human talent plays an important role in any entity since these are composed of people and are the ones that give life to the company and to take the good development of intellectual capital is to take advantage of those talents they possess, to exploit those knowledge, skills, skills, creativity, potentiality, helps to make MSMEs more competitive regardless of the turn or size to which it is dedicated. The purpose of this document is to identify elements that influence human talent. To this end, a quantitative research was carried out in which it was analyzed through statistical analysis that factors have been propitiated in a Recreational Company within which areas such as; Organizational development, leadership, training, emotional salary and organizational climate where it is framed that having trained, motivated, committed and self-realized people will affect the company to be productive since they are these that lead to the objectives and goals proposed. In this way turning human talent as an agent of change and success.
THE EFFECT OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION ON IMPROVING THE LEVEL OF ORGANIZATIONAL AGILITY OF MEGAMOTOR COMPANY
Authors: Sahar Soheila Shame
Published: September 2022

The aim of the present study is to investigate the effect of knowledge management and organizational innovation on Megamotor Company's agility. In order to find out whether there is a relationship between these two variables, a filed research was selected. The time frame of the present study is from February 2017 to July 2018 and the time of distribution of the questionnaire was May 2018.  The present study is a part of the field of management and in relation to the effectiveness of the mediating role of innovation and knowledge management on company's agility. 335 people were randomly selected as the ultimate subjects of the present study. Analyzing the obtained data, it was found that there is a meaningful relationship between knowledge management and organizational innovation.