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Japanese Ceremonial for Western Diplomats Attending Shogunal Castle Audiences, 1857-1867
Authors: Sano Mayuko , Toda Dylan L. , Baxter James C.
Published: January 2025

The formal diplomatic relations between Japan and Western nations dawned when the first American consul-general Townsend Harris was received by the thirteenth Tokugawa shogun Iesada at Edo castle in 1857. This work unveils the seventeen castle audiences for Western envoys carried out by the Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1867) during its last decade of reign. Through that process, the shogunate completed a ceremonial form based on its own tradition, as well as consistent with the Western practice. The endeavours of Tokugawa retainers on the frontline of external affairs at the time, prior to the Meiji Restoration (1868), was the true first step of Japan’s entry into the international community. The formation of diplomatic ceremonial, progressed as a different layer from more political negotiations, provides an alternative history of bakumatsu (late years of the shogunate) foreign relations that has been overlooked in previous studies.
Itinerari Italiani: A Visual Information Campaign to Reclaim Italian Regionalisms and Remap US–Italian Economic Interdependence under the Marshall Plan
Authors: Longo Regina M.
Published: January 2025

This chapter traces the interwoven Italian and US production histories of a series of short documentaries that resurfaced in the US National Archives in the late 1990s and early 2000s. They were produced under the Italian newsreel label La settimana Incom between 1949 and 1951 with entirely Italian production teams. The pro-American Incom newsreel series was known for recycling its own footage and using stock footage provided to them by US government and commercial newsreel producers. Through close textual analysis of the series, the author takes the reader on a reimagined post-WWII grand tour of Italy, stopping in each location to address the competing imaginaries and tensions that emerge where distinct cultural and political agendas are at stake.
From Enemy Images to Friend Images after WWII , or How France Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Germany
Authors: Steinle Matthias , Val Perrine
Published: January 2025

Postwar French non-fiction cinema contributed to a rapid shift in the representation and perception of Germany. Considered as a “hereditary enemy” since the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, West Germany became in a few years the key partner of France in the construction of Europe. The signing of the Elysée Treaty in 1963 sealed this transformation of what is now referred to as the Franco-German duo or couple. Our chapter traces the role played by non-fiction films (newsreels, documentaries, institutional films) in the construction of the image of the other during the postwar period, in overcoming the fear of a resurgence of Nazism, and in the appearance of a feeling of closeness that gradually turns into empathy and friendship.
“Room to Move and Space to Play”1
Authors: Fritsche Maria , Pohl Dennis
Published: January 2025

This chapter examines the interrelation between the Marshall Plan (MP) films and the MP’s building and exchange programs for European architects. By analyzing depictions of architecture in the films, the chapter demonstrates how the Marshall Planners aimed to reconfigure public and private space by linking modern architecture to Western liberalism, thereby utilizing older Bauhaus ideals.
Screening Dortmund in Ruins
Authors: Stark Alexander
Published: January 2025

Combining the perspectives of amateur film research and useful cinema research, the chapter is a case study on film footage that was shot in the West German city of Dortmund in the immediate postwar period. The material stems from Dortmund resident Elisabeth Wilms, who at that time was an enthusiastic film hobbyist and was later able to turn that hobby into a profession. Her shots of the devastated city center of Dortmund can be regarded as the foundation of the filmmaker’s decades-long career in utility film production, as her footage was used repeatedly in various contexts, from fundraising films, municipal promotional films, educational films, and remembrance films to TV documentaries—in most cases to evoke a sense of community.
Teaching (with) Postwar Cinema
Authors: Haváč Ondřej , Villa Paolo
Published: January 2025

As an invaluable historical source, non-fiction cinema also represents a precious means for history teaching in schools and universities. By studying history with and through the medium of cinema, students can develop essential skills and knowledge in media understanding, that they can apply also to the current mediasphere. This chapter intends to discuss the challenges of teaching history through non-fiction film, fostering critical thinking and a civic sense of belonging; the availability of (film) sources online, and the need to go beyond the model of mere digitization towards one of full-fledged curatorship. It will introduce, as a case study, the rationale and structure of ViCTOR-E’s educational tool kit, and discuss some preliminary tests conducted in Italy and the Czech Republic.
Jesuit Missionary Cartography of the Upper Amazon, 1689 to 1789
Authors: Saladin Irina , Selwyn Pamela E.
Published: January 2025

In the early modern period, members of the Society of Jesus working as missionaries in the so-called mission of Maynas explored vast areas of the upper Amazon. These missionaries belonged to the very small group of Europeans who lived in the forests of the Amazon Basin for longer periods, in close contact with local people. Their daily experiences in the mission, their high level of education, and their connection with the institutional structures of the Jesuit order made them key figures in the production of knowledge about the Amazon. Irina Saladin investigates the complex relationships between mission and knowledge in the context of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Jesuit maps. She analyzes how Jesuit missionary practices shaped the cartographic representation of the Amazon in the early modern era.
St. Elisabeth of Thuringia
Authors: Busse-Wilson Elisabeth , Wiethaus Ulrike
Published: January 2025

Only twelve years after German women had been granted voting rights, the German medievalist Elisabeth Busse-Wilson, a first-wave feminist activist and scholar, challenged centuries of silence about violence against women by taking on the case of the most famous European saint, the young Elisabeth of Thuringia (1207-1231). Married at a very young age, St. Elisabeth soon fell under the spell of the notorious confessor and inquisitor Konrad von Marburg. His brutal treatment of the young woman was erased from the cult of St. Elisabeth to protect male privilege both in the church and society at large.

Published to coincide with the 700-year anniversary of her death, Busse-Wilsons study caused a storm of controversy. Translated for the first time into English, this book reintroduces to a contemporary audience this long-forgotten but still provocative and timely classic.
Religious Sounds Beyond the Global North
Authors: Lorea Carola E. , Hackett Rosalind I.J.
Published: January 2025

What makes sounds “religious”? How are communities shaped by the things they hear, play, or listen to? This book foregrounds connections between sounds, bodies, and media in the private and public life of communities beyond the Global North, analyzing diverse configurations of the category of sound and various sonic ontologies to usher in a more inclusive global anthro-history of religious sounds.

This edited volume implements a “sonic turn” in the study of religion by engaging with a diversity of auditory, musical, and embodied practices. Dislodging the Global North as the main point of reference for studies on religious sound, this volume proposes an acoustemology of the post-secular with an emphasis on Asia as method. Unsettling and expanding existing discussions on senses, media, and power, editors Carola E. Lorea and Rosalind I. J. Hackett present religious sounds as co-creating subjectivities and collectivities that coalesce around audible aesthetic formations. This volume demonstrates that religious sounds are not only produced by certain religious traditions but also produce communities, shaping the self and sensitivity of those who participate.
Women’s Stories in Le Mercure Galant (1672–1710)
Authors: Steinberger Deborah
Published: January 2025

What do women want to read? Jean Donneau de Visé, the founder and editor in chief of Le Mercure Galant, one of France’s first newspapers, was arguably the first journalist to ask this question and to recognize and capitalize upon the influence of female readers and their social networks. By including “custom content” and performing the act of listening to women, Le Mercure Galant situates itself as an intermediary, using the nouvelle as a vehicle to amplify women’s voices. These fictions, presented as true stories, depict incidents and situations that women often bore silently in real life: domestic violence, romantic betrayal, dishonor, or simply loneliness. By publishing these stories alongside its chronicle of historic events, the Mercure lends credence and prestige to depictions of the private life of anonymous individuals, exploiting the ostensibly anodyne genre of “women’s fiction” to disseminate modern ideas about women’s agency.
Sonic Gendering of Ritual Spaces
Authors: Wartner-Attarzadeh Talieh , Weiss Sarah
Published: January 2025

Both the sound of bells from churches and the adhan from mosques call their communities to gather and punctuate the day at regular intervals. They also gender public spaces as male, addressing the (mostly) men who serve as leaders in the religion, as well as the men whose lives are described in scriptures—words that were predominantly recorded by men. Drawing on comparative case studies from Asia and Europe, we argue that through performance, in particular at mourning rituals, women sonically gender spaces, temporarily as female. In claiming those spaces, women performers create opportunities for articulating commentary and opinion about their lives and their community.
Sounding Resilience and Resistance
Authors: Farzana Kazi Fahmida , Sammonds Peter , Ahmed Bayes
Published: January 2025

The Rohingya ethnic minority from the Rakhine state of Myanmar has been forced to become a stateless community currently living in some countries in South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and beyond. They are regarded as a persecuted community that has encountered structural inequality and systematic violence in Myanmar for decades due to their religious and ethnic identity. The painful experiences and collective memories remain alive in their diasporic life in the form of verbal arts, poems, and songs (tarana). Rohingyas in Malaysia often take refuge in the taranas for mental peace, for the construction of a political identity, and to envision a better future.
The Power and the Politics of Embodying Dancehall
Authors: Woods Orlando
Published: January 2025

This chapter argues that the embodiment of dancehall culture in Singapore can lead to emancipation from, and tensions within, the religious self. Dancehall, a cultural movement that emerged in Jamaica in the late 1970s, encapsulates a distinct style of music, dance, dress, and attitude that has become known for hyper-sexualized representations of the gendered body. The embodiment of dancehall culture in Singapore found particular appeal amongst Malay-Muslim youths. For them, the sonic affectiveness of dancehall provides a performative channel through which they can engage with their bodies in ways that subvert the conservative prescriptions of their ethno-religious community. It enables them to realize gendered and sexual freedoms which must, however, be negotiated within the broader context of community surveillance.
Performing vs. Recording: The Sound of Modern Bali
Authors: Aryandari Citra
Published: January 2025

This chapter explores the connection between religious sounds and recordings in Bali. It describes the practices of a secluded village community that emphasizes the continuity of tradition. The music of a sacred gamelan ensemble cannot be recorded in accordance with local cultural prohibitions. In contrast, recordings of a yearly incantation of Javanese epic narratives are permitted. Looking at several Balinese sonic/performative practices reveals a textured landscape that factors in the history and politics of specific technologies and people. Foreign scholars have influenced the ways the world “listens” to Bali and how Balinese artists understand their traditions at the confluence of competing histories, technologies, and musical epistemologies.
Amplified Waves
Authors: Henley David
Published: January 2025

This chapter explores the nexus of religious sound and social conflict in multiethnic Indonesia. It analyzes recent controversy over mosque loudspeakers, including the case of a non-Muslim woman who was imprisoned in 2018 for “religious defamation” after complaining about noise from her local mosque. This event was bound up with a broader contest between groups favoring a greater role for Islam in the public domain, and groups upholding the principle of religious neutrality on which Indonesia’s quasi-secular state is based. The essay articulates a close parallel between popular hostility to critics of Islamic noise in Indonesia, and popular hostility to makers of Islamic noise in Western countries, both of which can be understood as expressions of nativistic, majoritarian identity politics.
A Theory of Ritual Polyphony in Chinese Religious Performances
Authors: Dean Kenneth
Published: January 2025

This chapter articulates a theory of ritual polyphony in Chinese religions. The first and second sections explore the role of sound and embodiment in early Chinese discussions of music and dance and the rhythmic movements of the cosmos. The third section introduces Chinese medieval Daoist discussions of the cosmic whistling of Daoist recluses, and the role of cosmogenic sonic energies embedded within Sanskrit syllables and spells within Daoist scriptures and liturgy. The final section opens up a larger perspective on sonic forces in contemporary local communal ritual events in Southeast China and Southeast Asia, in which both Daoist and earlier conceptions of the role of music and dance play a role.
South Asia on the Move
Authors: Linder Benjamin , Bedi Tarini
Published: January 2025

This book extends the so-called new mobilities paradigm by focusing such theoretical advances on South Asian scholarship. When it comes to analytical approaches to movement, the intellectual trajectory of mobilities work has been tremendously provocative, particularly in the last fifteen years. However, much of that literature remains deeply rooted in Western/Northern geographies, ontologies, and priorities. This volume pushes beyond those earlier approaches to center South Asia as a critical site through which scholars can advance new theoretical and empirical research, diversify extant mobilities studies, and pose a challenge to Western models. Through a diverse set of interdisciplinary chapters, the collection makes a sustained argument about the value of decentering (im)mobilities research. In so doing, ‘South Asia on the Move’ redirects the regional, theoretical, and methodological foci of the mobilities turn, demonstrating the relevance of South Asia for thinking about movement within the region and around the world.
Gendering Distance: Marriage and Mobility in Bangladesh’s Riverine Borderlands
Authors: Sur Malini
Published: January 2025

This chapter explores how marital life worlds and the anticipation of new conjugal futures unevenly gather circuits of mobility and exchange in Bangladesh. The diverse relationships that marriage has with mobility open new lines of enquiry for probing borderlands as sites of negotiations and belongings amidst nation-building and the force of transnational imaginaries. As containers of culture and mobility, marriages realign questions of distance in territorial and emotional terms. This chapter casts historical and ethnographic attention to marriage and conjugality from the borderland chars of Kurigram district in Bangladesh, which adjoin India.
At the Love Commandos: Narratives of Mobility Among Intercaste Couples in a Delhi Safe House
Authors: Sadana Rashmi
Published: January 2025

Marriage as being about family rather than individuals is a common South Asian trope, and while there is truth to it, it is one that is continually being negotiated by families and couples alike. Meeting runaway intercaste couples hiding in a safe house in Delhi led me to reflect on a new geography of love at work in their lives and in the city today, especially in relation to caste, which is always imbricated with class and gender in urban India. By mapping the social and physical parameters of runaway couples’ mobility in a single ethnographic context, I argue that it is the quest for mobility rather than an expression of individual choice that is most significant about their flouting of social norms.
Adventure Time: Adventure Tourism and the “Annihilation of Space by Time” in Nepal
Authors: Liechty Mark
Published: January 2025

If money and technology make possible different traversals of space in time, then the nature of tourist mobilities is going to be closely tied to tourists’ relationships with transport technology, time, and money. This chapter traces Nepal’s tourism history through three configurations: elderly elite travelers with much time and money (1955-65); young countercultural travelers rich in time but poor in money (1965-75); and, from the 1970s onwards, adventure tourists-people with money but little time. Each phase illustrates how changing transport technology enables changing tourisms. The chapter explores how touristic mobilities in Nepal have always been entangled with (and constituted by) other material and cultural assemblages, from technology and demography to infrastructure and mediated images.
Conclusion: Thinking Theory, Pedagogy, Method
Authors: Bedi Tarini
Published: January 2025

This conclusion reflects on the overall development of this volume, on our engagements with the writings of our contributors, and on the living, emergent shifts from our initial introduction to the mobilities turn as anthropologists and South Asianists. It also reflects on how to bring a mobilities orientation into a classroom and into fieldwork in South Asia and beyond. I provide some concrete ways that mobilities scholars could translate paradigmatic thinking into a pedagogical and methodological toolbox. These pedagogical examples come from my work with both graduate and undergraduate students at three universities and in three distinct disciplinary/interdisciplinary programs. It centers on how to get our students to grasp the range of theory over the last fifteen years of the mobilities turn, and on how to translate motional theory into doing mobilities teaching and research. I hope it provides some guidance to Anthropology students on how to embark on their ethnographic work while keeping movement in mind.
Early Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic
Authors: Cairns Emily Colbert , Romero-Díaz Nieves
Published: January 2025

Early Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic is the first volume to emphasize women’s personal experiences and their life trajectories as mothers within the Peninsula and across the Atlantic. Although an official discourse that defined the conditions of motherhood emerged in the eighteenth century, before this period there were many different articulations of motherhood through which women negotiated hierarchical relationships, power struggles and alliances. While the individual experiences were unique and depended upon the positionality of race and class, the complexities of being a mother were universal. The wide variety of written and visual documents included in this volume highlight women’s voices in the first person along with more subtle references to motherhood as well as silences. This collection broadens our understanding of the complexities of motherhood, addressing the pressures of becoming a mother, miscarriage, the acts of giving birth and lactation and the ordeals of raising children.
‘Services for Which I Expect to be Compensated’: Mothering as a Salaried Labor in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon
Authors: Blumenthal Debra
Published: January 2025

According to the kingdom of Valencia’s law code, mothers, unlike other childcare providers, were not entitled to receive financial compensation for nurturing their child. This essay examines dozens of fifteenth-century petitions filed before royal and civil magistrates of Valencia by widows, single women and concubines denying claims that “maternal piety” impelled them to give infants their breast to suck. Instead, they demanded a salary for breastfeeding their own children. The essay explores the various strategies both elite and non-elite female plaintiffs employed when pitted against a law code that had codified the concept of mothering as a labor of love.
The Stains of the Mother: Indian Mothers and Mestizo Children in Early Colonial Peru
Authors: Agnoli Rocío Quispe
Published: January 2025

This essay examines the representation of the Indian mother in the early seventeenth-century accounts of Bernardino de Cárdenas, a criollo extirpator of idolatries, and Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, a Native Peruvian chronicler. These authors spoke from different places and interests about the rampant increase of the mestizo population in early colonial Peru and wrote disparaging remarks regarding the Andean woman who bore mestizos. To further address Guaman Poma’s convergence with Cárdenas’s condemnation of Indian mothers of mestizos, this essay compares their writings in their colonial context. In addition, it considers gender ideologies in the Andes before and after the Spanish conquest, and the imposition of a hierarchical relationship between gender roles.
Motherhood and Gender: When the Queen Has Only Daughters—The Case of Mariana Victoria de Bourbon (1718–81)
Authors: Anastácio Vanda
Published: January 2025

In the early modern period the emphasis on lineage placed reproduction at the heart of the monarchical system and reinforced the perception of women—and of women’s bodies—as vessels for the perpetuation of genealogies. In a world where the transmission of power was based on male heirs, a lot was dependent on sex. Awareness of these aspects can help us understand the constraints imposed on mothers, as well as the extent and the multiple ways the experience of motherhood could determine women’s lives, women’s psychology, women’s health, and women’s behavior. The life of Mariana Victoria of Bourbon (1718–81), a mother of four daughters, is exemplary in this sense. The way her entourage dealt with her “incapacity” of giving birth to a son, the impact this had on her, the strategies found to secure the transmission of power to her eldest daughter and how this situation affected her are the starting point for the discussion presented in this paper.
Maternal Bodies and Fertile Letters: The Politics of Motherhood Networking in Estefania de Requesens’ Correspondence
Authors: Pérez-Toribio Montserrat
Published: January 2025

Motherhood during the early modern period was a challenging endeavor for women of all social backgrounds, yet there was no readily available manual on how to navigate its complexities and intricate demands. Prescriptive literature was primarily concerned with regulating women’s physical and emotional well-being rather than providing practical guidance for the day-to-day realities confronted by mothers of that time. This essay delves into the Catalan noblewoman Estefania de Requesens’ correspondence to explore how women create an invaluable repository of maternal knowledge with the potential to transcend generations and become an empirical manual of motherhood. Estefania builds a dynamic community of experience engaged in the common enterprise of nurturance and caregiving—an enclave in which to transmit “maternal” knowledge and thinking where women are the primary producers and consumers.
Motherhood and the Early Modern Woman Artist
Authors: Hall-van den Elsen Catherine
Published: January 2025

This study examines the social contexts, the lives and the ambitions of four highly skilled women artists from early modern Spain who found themselves juggling the demands of marriage, motherhood and a career. Ana Heylan (Granada, 1615–55), María Eugenia de Beer (Madrid, c. 1621–c. 1652), Luisa Roldán (Seville 1652–Madrid 1706) and Luisa Valdés (Seville 1654–after 1699) trained in their family workshops and were all acknowledged as capable practitioners from young ag es. Despite their unarguable artistic talents, their career trajectories were significantly affected by their gender, their roles as mothers and their family support structures.
Casa de Niños Expósitos: The Substitute Mother in Colonial Mexico
Authors: Hernández-Torres Yolopattli
Published: January 2025

The establishment of the Foundling House (c. 1767) in Mexico City combined Christian charity with Enlightenment tenets and had as its main purpose to give shelter and protect abandoned children in the viceroyalty of Mexico. This essay proposes that the ordinances of the house (Constituciones) outline its functioning and management, while stressing its nature as a surrogate parent for the foundlings. However, instead of the elite men from the council, underpaid and undervalued working women oversaw the daily care and maintenance of the children. The house became a substitute mother, evidencing that in New Spain women were considered responsible and the sole caregiver for abandoned children while their biological children were often left behind.
Politics of Feeling in Songs of the Dutch Revolutionary Period
Authors: Vulto Renée
Published: January 2025

Politics of Feeling in Songs of the Dutch Revolutionary Period sheds new light on the intertwined history of music and politics by exploring Dutch political songs. In the emotionally charged climate of the Dutch revolutionary period at the close of the eighteenth century, songs became a powerful medium, speaking directly to people’s bodies to engage them in political action. Emphasizing the performative nature of the songs and the interplay between imagination and embodied expression in singing practices, this book shows how beyond merely creating communities, the songs were also instrumental in mobilizing, imagining, and affirming these collectives. It uncovers the diverse roles of these songs, showing how they were used both to polarize and to unite, to mourn and to celebrate. They were employed to imagine and to embody togetherness throughout the Dutch revolutionary period, thereby creating a fixed repertoire of feelings on which various political regimes of that time relied.
Doctor Who and Gay Male Fandom
Authors: Stack Mike
Published: January 2025

Doctor Who is a BBC transmedia franchise that has lasted over sixty years. Its fanbase boasts a substantial following of gay men. This book asks why this should be.

Through examining four core components – the Doctor, the TARDIS, the companion and the Daleks – this book traces the trajectory of queerness from wider culture to paratextual media and finally into the parent text, resulting in an inclusive brand. In doing so, it argues that fandom provides a space to mediate between personal identities and the wider world. Drawing from interviews with fans, the book demonstrates the complexities and contradictions of queerness, and proposes an alternative theory of gay cultural formation.

This is the first book-length study to use queer theory to understand Doctor Who. It will be of interest to students and teachers of media theory and fan studies, psychosocial studies, queer theory and history, as well as Doctor Who fans.
Confronting Politicized Research: The Case for Reflexive Neutrality
Authors: König René , Arora Payal , Raman Usha
Published: January 2025

We have come a long way from a model that idealizes politically neutral research to one that expects researchers to take a stand and to actively change society. Our paper retraces this development and highlights the criticisms that led to this change in orientation. Concluding that it might be too early to entirely abandon the idea of neutrality, we outline initial ideas of a revised model that considers certain valid criticisms while maintaining the goal of neutrality.
Inside Datafication: Entrepreneurial Research for Investigating Emerging Data Practices
Authors: Schäfer Mirko Tobias
Published: January 2025

At Utrecht University, the Data School embarked on a journey to investigate AI and data practices up close, from within the organizations that implement them. This empirical work thrives on a process involving entrepreneurial activities – practices of collaborative and co-created research enabling researchers to deeply immerse themselves in the societal sectors under investigation. Occupying this privileged position, they do not only gather insights: they can also intervene and immediately apply their findings. This chapter presents how entrepreneurial activities are used for collecting evidence, creating learning opportunities, and possibilities for intervention and social impact. Referring to examples of entrepreneurial research at the Data School, the chapter discusses challenges and opportunities of this approach, and presents practices for mitigating risks.
The Challenge of Addressing Subjectivities through Participatory Action Research on Datafication
Authors: Reilly Katherine , Morales Maria Julia
Published: January 2025

Participatory action research leans heavily on the subjectivity of knowledge producers as a vehicle for change. In our work, however, we encountered several assumptions about how subjectivities, including our own, can be drawn on to address datafication’s implications for data subjects. We argue that participatory data literacy interventions, if they are to create fundamental change in the face of datafication, cannot be technocentric or top-down instruments. Rather, they must depart from the processes of subjectivation taking place in relation to specific instances of datafication. In addition, data subjects must have the tools necessary to engage in critical reflection so that they recognize collective subjectivities and/or embrace their individual agentic capacity. Without these tools, it is difficult to realize participatory transformations.
Community Responses to Family Violence Policy: A Public Sector Collaboration
Authors: McCosker Anthony , Farmer Jane , Panah Arezou Soltani
Published: January 2025

In 2015–2016, the state government of Victoria, Australia, mounted a high-profile public inquiry into family violence, seeking input from various stakeholders with the aim of guiding policy reform and widespread systemic and social change. In subsequent years, the government sought to use innovative data science methods to evaluate the impact and outcomes of the inquiry and of family violence policy interventions. This chapter reports on a collaboration between an interdisciplinary team of social and data science researchers and public sector stakeholders using innovative digital methods and natural language processing techniques to provide evidence of public responses to family violence policy. It explains the opportunities, processes, and challenges involved in a collaborative public sector social data project.
Advancing Equity through Data Practices: A Transformative Model for Organizational Change
Authors: Osman Muna , Mohamoud Hindia
Published: January 2025

The Ottawa Local Immigrant Partnership (OLIP) is a multi-sectoral partnership of seventy-nine local organizations and community representatives promoting the equitable integration of immigrants in Ottawa. To remove inequities and enhance equitable policies and practices, organizations need a space to better understand inequities, develop inclusive data practices and secure infrastructure, and strengthen their capacity to collect and use disaggregated sociodemographic data. To address this gap, OLIP developed the Equity Ottawa initiative as a platform for knowledge mobilization, peer support, and shared learnings, as well as to promote accountability. This chapter outlines why and how we did this work, what challenges we faced, and the strategies we used to build more equitable and inclusive organizations in the city.
Advancing Critical Data Literacy through Justice-Focused Research: A Case Study of the Occupational Hazards of Mass Incarceration
Authors: Hunter Savannah , Poirier Lindsay , Shapiro Nicholas
Published: January 2025

This case study describes the model of multi-campus collaboration between Hack for California and Carceral Ecologies in advancing work on a project examining OSHA violations in US prisons, jails, and detention centers. The project – originally proposed by Carceral Ecologies – involved wrangling open government data that was notably fractured, inconsistent, and politically contentious. We conclude with a discussion of how facilitating multidisciplinary collaborations around social justice focused data science projects can advance critical data literacy education for students and produce more responsible and contextualized findings. After outlining the challenges involved in building and sustaining such collaborations, such as balancing educational opportunities and producing results that can lead to material outcomes, we chart some pathways forward.
You Will Be Assimilated: Reflections on Ethnographic Fieldwork on Algorithmic Systems
Authors: Kolkman Daan
Published: January 2025

For over a decade, I have navigated the dual identities of being both a researcher and a practitioner within the data science domain. This unique vantage point has provided me with invaluable insights into the daily workings and challenges faced by those who develop and deploy algorithmic systems. However, this dual role has not been without its tensions. In this chapter I explore these tensions and consider if – and if so, how – critical algorithm studies can be pursued while being embedded as a data professional. More specifically, I reflect on my own gradual ‘assimilation’ in the community of data professionals or my transition from playing an outsider to an insider role in my fieldwork on algorithmic systems.
Lessons Learned from The eQuality Project: Privacy and Equality for Youth in Networked Spaces
Authors: Steeves Valerie
Published: January 2025

This chapter provides an overview of insights on transdisciplinary research, gained while working on the eQuality Project (EQ), a partnership of academic researchers, civil society and community groups, educators, policymakers, and youth who are working together to explore young people’s lived experiences of privacy/surveillance and equality in networked spaces. The article delves into three main areas of the project: research, education/outreach, and policy. It also details working with collaborators, what makes for a successful partnership and what challenges may come up with this type of research.
Adversarial Islamic Feminism
Authors: Mincheva Dilyana
Published: January 2025

This book explores the adversarial world of feminist activism by Muslim women within highly mediated environments (social media, screenwriting, documentary filmmaking, YouTube), focusing on agency, bodily integrity, and familial obligations. It highlights how adversarial Islamic feminism uses social media to spread intersectional feminist messages, creating virtual communities that both support and challenge these ideas. The book showcases the diversity within Islamic practices and the lived experiences of women beyond the gatekeeping authoritative interpretations of Sunni Islamic theology. It presents adversarial Islamic feminism as existing in a "borderland" between Islam and feminism, questioning and reshaping their confluence. This space allows for a vibrant dialogue that bridges Western and Islamic feminist perspectives, offering a new view on the intersection of these identities
Maternity, Monstrosity, and Heroic (Im)mortality from Homer to Shakespeare
Authors: Burdorff Sara Frances
Published: January 2025

This work uses an adaptation of monster theory to rethink the foundations of epic-heroic immortality. Rather than focusing on a specific monster or monsters, the author identifies the “belly-monstrous” as a crucial point of intersection between mothers and warriors in traditional narratives of the Trojan War. Identifying the gestating/digesting belly as the center of the Iliadic world, this groundbreaking approach disrupts androcentric readings of the Iliadic warrior and his ethos, emphasizing the crucial role of female suffering in the generation and preservation of immortal legacy.

The author reconsiders ancient Greek depictions of the Trojan War and its aftermath, including Homeric epic and the tragedies of Aeschylus and Euripides, and illuminates the cohesive patterning of Shakespeare’s “mother-warrior” plays, which place inherited Iliadic-belly-monstrous motifs in conversation with cultural anxieties of late Elizabethan England.

With meticulous scholarship and captivating analysis, Maternity, Monstrosity, and Heroic (Im)mortality from Homer to Shakespeare redefines the relationship between mothers and warriors in the Iliadic-heroic ideal, paving the way for new interpretations of war, grief, and immortal glory in a broad range of literary and cultural contexts.
Traces of Jerusalem during the Office of the Olomouc Bishop Henry Zdík (1083-1150)
Authors: Adá;mková; Iva , Havel Dalibor
Published: January 2025

The Bishop Henry Zdík visited Jerusalem twice. From Jerusalem, he brought home the relic of the Holy Cross which was added to the treasury of the Olomouc canonry. In the Olomouc diocese, he introduced a new rite of ordaining priests modelled after the one used in Jerusalem. He also created a system of sacral buildings connected by the memory of holy places. We will deal with following questions: How did the Jerusalem impulses affect the internal reorganisation in Olomouc and in Zdík’s foundations? Is the effort to transfer topography of Jerusalem onto Bohemian-Moravian environment evident in these institutions? In the second section, we focus on Zdík’s possible citation borrowings from St. Jerome and their connection to Rorgo Fretellus.
Visions of Jerusalem: Forms and Functions of the Holy City’s Depictions in Bohemian Manuscripts
Authors: Panušková Lenka
Published: January 2025

The first part of this chapter deals with those examples, where the image of Jerusalem presents the background for biblical events. Mostly, the architectural settings of a biblical event or figure can be established as the City of Jerusalem based on iconographic identification of the narrative. Here, the most significant depiction of Heavenly Jerusalem in the Bohemian book painting, the opening folio to Augustine’s De civitate dei, is investigated in detail. Another depiction of Heavenly Jerusalem presents the aperture in the Codex Gigas, which is analysed within the manuscript as one complex. Secondly, this paper concentrates on diagrammatic depictions both of Jerusalem and the Temple. Special attention is devoted to the Velislav picture Bible, containing several visions of Jerusalem.
Heavenly Jerusalem in Bohemian Utraquist Thought: Images of the Heavenly City in the Jena Codex
Authors: Studničková Milada , Mutlová Petra , Horníčková1 Kateřina
Published: January 2025

The chapter analyzes issues related to an illumination of Heavenly Jerusalem in the so-called Jena Codex. This manuscript contains a series of Latin and Czech pictorial and textual antitheses connected with the Czech Reformation of the early fifteenth century, including a representation of the Earthly and the Heavenly cities. The chapter provides an iconographic description and analysis of the antithetical illumination in the codex, which includes an assessment of its possible predecessors in medieval illumination, and an analysis of the accompanying textual material which reveals the philosophical and theological-university context of the illuminations. The chapter further provides an interpretation of the images in relation to literary representations of good and bad cities within the context of the Bohemian Reformation.
Transformations of Jerusalem in Bohemian Murals
Authors: Dienstbier Jan
Published: January 2025

This chapter presents various attitudes towards the depiction of Jerusalem in medieval Bohemian wall-paintings. Two fragmentary depictions of Heavenly Jerusalem have been preserved in the Basilica of St. George at Prague Castle, which demonstrate Jerusalem as an eschatological destination. The depiction of Jerusalem in wall-paintings in the Church of St. Nicholas in the village Lažiště provides a framework for miniaturised images of Jesus’s suffering, and anticipates late medieval Jerusalem depictions. The murals in the monastery church of the Fourteen Holy Helpers in Kadaň display yet another mode of virtual pilgrimage to Jerusalem; the biblical city appears in the background of paintings of the Crucifixion and Entombment of Christ, supplemented with a realistically conceived view of the Kadaň monastery.
The Direct and Indirect Transfer of Jerusalem in Fifteenth-Century Bohemian Travel Accounts
Authors: Svátek Jaroslav
Published: January 2025

The recording of direct experience of pilgrimage to the Holy Land in the form of travelogues has been established in the Bohemian context since the second half of the fifteenth century. Several textual testimonies that can be considered as ego-documents describe Jerusalem and other holy sites. The main question posed in this chapter is, how have these texts mediated the real experience of their authors, and to what extent have they been inspired by existing textual tradition? I use textual methods in order to reconsider the paradigm of the originality and authenticity of Czech travelogues. This comparison makes possible to better document how the “real” or idealised image of Jerusalem was delivered to the reading communities of the Late Medieval Bohemia.
Uprooted Jerusalem: The Destruction of the Holy City in Medieval Bohemian Literature
Authors: Soukup Daniel
Published: January 2025

Within the history of Jewish and Christian theology, the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD marks the moment when the temple offering was replaced with the service in the synagogue, eschatologically focused towards the renewal of the Temple. Within the Christian soteriology, the destruction of the Temple is viewed as the completion of the process in which the Church replaced Israel as the Chosen people. In the eyes of later Bible exegetes who draw their detailed information from the works by Joseph Flavius, the destruction of Jerusalem became the typological model of all later atrocities committed against the Jews. This chapter traces the transformation of this paradigm, using the example of Bohemical sources.
Introduction
Authors: Kühnel Bianca
Published: January 2025

This chapter provides an essential introduction into the Jerusalem studies. It traces the beginnings when representations of Jerusalem elsewhere across medieval Europe were analyzed mostly by pointing out their similarities and dissimilarities with the original model of the Holy Sepulchre and its surroundings. More particularly, it focuses on the new vocabulary that was introduced into Jerusalem studies in the last decades. Since Jerusalem sites are now more frequently referred to as translations rather than copies, the chapter uses examples on both sides of Alps to demonstrate the process of transition of the holy places within a different landscape. Doing so, the introduction constructs a necessary framework for Jerusalem translations as they were established in medieval Czech Lands during the long Middle Ages.
Information Society and Media Development in Modern Mongolia
Authors: Baasanjav Undrah
Published: January 2025

This book provides an account of Mongolian information society from the perspective of critical media studies. The converged media sphere in modern Mongolia mirrors and shapes political communication, economic outlook, institutional norms, and Mongolian identity. When placing Mongolia on the global information society map, the arguments in the book juxtapose information society tenets and structural constraints like the small market, communist past, and mining-dependent economy. Today, people in Mongolia take advantage of the mobility, speed, and spatiality of the internet, as the Mongolians of old once saddled their horses and galloped across the grassy steps of Eurasia.
Личностная идентичность творца в изменяющемся мире
Authors: Марцинковская Т.Д.
Published: January 2025

В статье поднимается проблема психологии творчества как метода поиска художником своей личностной идентичности в изменяющемся мире. Исследуются варианты создания художественного произведения и как сознательного конструирования дополнительного пространства для свободного самовыражения, и как способа совладания с трудностями и негативными переживаниями, бессознательного катарсиса. При рассмотрении вопроса о связи художника и общества подчеркивается важность изучения того, какими средствами и с какими интенциями переживания эпохи отображались в разных видах искусства. Показывается разница в степени осознанности творческого процесса между писателями, поэтами и художниками, композиторами. Рассматриваются варианты поиска утраченного мира на примере литературы (М. Прус, Э. Гофман) и живописи (П. Нилус, А. Серебряков). Анализируется связь между рациональными и иррациональными аспектами создания и восприятия произведения искусства при кодировании и декодировании его смысла художником и зрителем. Показывается синтетичность образов, предъявляемых в фильмах, которая обусловлена и коллективным творчеством (режиссер-оператор), и необходимостью сочетания требований художественности и финансовой окупаемости фильма. Важность соединения гибкой формы и сюжета в этом случае раскрывается на примере работ Д. Кэмерона и К. Нолана. Вопрос связи формы и содержания произведений искусства рассматривается на примере восприятия живописи и музыки художниками, композиторами и писателями. В контексте этой проблемы изучается роль цвета и колорита в живописи и мелодии и ритма в музыке. Изменения восприятия и переживания времени особенно отчетливо видны в работах постимпрессионистов и экспрессионизма в живописи и атональной музыки, особенно ярко выразившей кризисы эпохи в середине прошлого века. Поиски способа самовыражения себя и отражения своего времени являются оной из ведущих мотиваций художников. Данный мотив приводит к созданию произведений искусства, но бессмертным произведение становится только тогда, когда подобные поиски важны не только для самого творца, но и для людей в разные времена. Разговор художника с самим собой, гармоничное соединение в этом разговоре бессознательных переживаний и сознательных способов реализации стремлений в созданном мире делают творение бессмертным, так как помогают и зрителю обрести себя в изменчивом времени.