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DIGITAL DIVIDENDS OF THE DIGITIZATION OF PUBLIC FINANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Authors:   State Tax University, Krynytsia Sergii
Published: October 2024

The article examines and summarizes scientific approaches to the advantages and opportunities of implementing digital technologies in public finance management, which includes understanding the economic and social benefits that arise from digital decision-making, such as increased transparency, increased trust and increased efficiency. resource management. It was found that the transition to digital public finance management not only contributes to a more transparent and accountable government but also contributes to better decision-making processes and improved service delivery to the public. It analyzes in detail how digitalization ensures fiscal transparency, which increases the efficiency of the use of budget funds and public procurement processes with the help of modern digital tools, such as a single web portal for the use of public funds or an electronic public procurement system, and also positively affects the financial security of the state. In addition, the article examines the strengthening of the democratic participation of the public in the budget process, in particular, based on the implementation of the practice of participatory budgeting, to take into account the needs of citizens in public goods and services. It is emphasized that digitalization not only increases the quality of public services but also increases the effectiveness of budget policy as a whole. In addition, the significant impact of digital changes in the public finance management system on the growth of tax revenues and significant time savings of tax officials, other financial services, as well as taxpayers, which leads to an overall increase in productivity, has been investigated. The main focus is on the challenges that can hinder the successful realization of digital opportunities, including cyber security, digital divide issues, institutional capacity, etc., which require an integrated approach that takes into account technological, social, and regulatory aspects. It is emphasized that the successful implementation of digital dividends of digitalization of the public finance management system requires cooperation between the government, the private sector, and civil society.
As Perspectivas da Sociologia nos Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa (PALOPs)
Authors: De Souza Pain Rodrigo
Published: October 2024

O presente trabalho aponta para alguns dos desafios enfrentados pelos Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa (PALOPS) na consolidação da Sociologia como área do conhecimento relevante, seja no âmbito universitário ou escolar. Para isso utilizaremos de algumas das poucas bibliografias sobre a temática, como também entrevistas com docentes e estudantes africanos. O pensamento decolonial inspira a produção do artigo, pois critica a perspectiva da modernidade do conhecimento atrelada unicamente ao pensamento eurocêntrico ou estadunidense.Nesses jovens países, a Universidade e essa área do conhecimento são novas e carecem de institucionalidade. A falta de investimento por parte do Estado, a precária estrutura, a dificuldade de cooperação acadêmica, a persistência de uma forte colonialidade na produção do conhecimento e entraves linguísticos dificultam ainda mais o processo. É importante buscar sinergia entre os países, com trocas de experiência e cooperação internacional - inclusive com o Brasil -, e também entre docentes e estudantes na luta pela disciplina.
Subjetividades Jurídicas e Políticas nos Países de Capitalismo Tardio, Semicoloniais e Dependentes
Authors: Rennó Villela Cláudio
Published: October 2024

O objetivo deste ensaio é contribuir para uma crítica construtiva a partir das elaborações de Karl Marx e Evgueni Pachukanis sobre a forma-jurídica capitalista, combinadas com as contribuições de Alysson Mascaro acerca da forma política estatal, aplicadas às questões contemporâneas transatlânticas no Brasil e em Angola. O Método para a compreensão do pensamento desses autores para o estudo do Estado, do Direito e dos sujeitos está dentro dos paradigmas dos próprios. As suas teorias estão ligadas aos objetivos de mudanças sociais e não podem ser analisadas sem que se leve em conta essa estratégia maior. O método que nos propomos não pode ser apenas de reflexões metodológicas vazias ou de discussões puramente abstratos, sob pena de não atingirmos os objetivos propostos. Não podemos circunscrever seus pensamentos apenas formalmente, se os queremos ver como pensamentos críticos vivos e atuais, úteis para os problemas teóricos e reais de nosso tempo. Pretendo alcançar tanto o resgate para a atualidade como a inovação epistemológica para a produção de conhecimento ao “sul global”, que seja útil ao desenvolvimento humano, à melhoria de condições sociais e individuais, por intermédio da educação, cultura e do bem-estar social, estreitando a relação entre educação, produção acadêmica e a saúde das pessoas, de forma sustentável e harmônica com a natureza e entre si.
Olhar Psicopedagógico aos Fatores que Dificultam a Aprendizagem dos Estudantes da Escola Superior Pedagógica do Bengo
Authors: Morales Victor João
Published: October 2024

O presente artigo, resultante de um estudo realizado durante o 1.º semestre do ano académico 2022-2023, visa identificar os fatores que dificultam a aprendizagem dos estudantes da Escola Superior Pedagógica do Bengo. Trata-se de um estudo de caso de caráter exploratório, pressupondo que os resultados obtidos com esta pesquisa não são generalizáveis. A pesquisa enquadra-se no modelo qualitativo, tendo na base opinião de sujeitos que agem em determinado contexto, influenciados por condicionantes sociais, econômicas, políticas e culturais e como técnica de recolha de dados a entrevista semiestruturada, a qual possibilitou fazer adequações ao longo de sua aplicação sempre que necessário. Com efeito, os dados obtidos por meio de gravações foram transcritos manualmente e codificados frase por frase, gerando um total de 233 códigos agrupados em 4 categorias de análise. Em termos de participantes, um número de 36 estudantes constitui a amostra do estudo, representando os cursos que são ministrados naquela instituição de ensino, quais sejam: Ensino da Psicologia, Ensino da Pedagogia, Ensino da Língua Portuguesa, Ensino da História, Ensino da Matemática e Ensino da Informática.   Consequentemente, os resultados revelam que diversos fatores dificultam a aprendizagem desses estudantes, com maior incidência nas relações interpessoais entre professores e alunos, sem descartar os fatores pedagógicos, socioeconômicos e fatores pessoais. Em decorrência disso, a conceção de projeto ou ações psicopedagógicas voltadas aos intervenientes da instituição, com maior realce aos professores e estudantes, ajudaria a mitigar consideravelmente os problemas identificados e a promover vias mais adequadas no desenvolvimento do processo de ensino-aprendizagem, tendo em conta  as caraterísticas dos estudantes e os desafios que enfrentam no seu dia-a-dia. Contudo, não é pretensão da presente pesquisa encerrar essa temática tão delicada, porém espera estimular o desenvolvimento de outras pesquisas, sobretudo do âmbito experimental e de natureza estatística, a fim de aprofundar a exploração de situações latentes que atentam a qualidade do processo de ensino-aprendizagem no seio da Escola Superior Pedagógica do Bengo.
Migration and the emergence of refugees from ukraine: scientific approaches and methodical tools to eliminate negative consequences
Authors: Danylyshyn Bohdan , Shevchenko Olga , Ohorodnyk Vira
Published: October 2024

Migration and emergence of a significant number of refugees from Ukraine result in structural deformations in the labor market, depopulation of settlements, economic imbalances, and hindered economic growth. These challenges are unprecedented and constantly worsening, stressing the need for an in-depth analysis of migration patterns, alterations in the labor market, settlement systems, and economic activities. The scientific basis for comprehending the short- and long-term impacts of migration and creating effective guidelines for managing it have not been thoroughly investigated. The objective of this article is to examine the migration processes and devise theoretical and practical methods to curb its unfavorable outcomes. Several strategic prerequisites for the return and reintegration of migrants must be established, alongside outlining the potential for their future socio-economic status.
Perancangan Desain Website Cetak.id Menggunakan Metode User Centered Design (UCD)
Authors: Ridwan Muhammad , Maysanjaya I Made Dendi , Pratiwi Putu Yudia
Published: October 2024

Percetakan saat ini sudah menjadi kebutuhan masyarakat dalam mencetak dokumen, mencetak spanduk, brosur, poster dan lain sebagainya. Namun dalam pelaksanaannya terdapat permasalahan seperti pelanggan membatalkan pesanan secara sepihak, antrian panjang di tempat percetakan, miskomunikasi antara pelanggan dengan penyedia layanan, dan manajemen antrian yang buruk. Berdasarkan permasalahan tersebut maka diperlukannya suatu sistem untuk mengatur proses pencetakan. Sebelum pengembangan sistem perlu adanya perancangan untuk memastikan bahwa sistem yang dibangun memenuhi kebutuhan pengguna. Penelitian ini membuat desain prototipe pemesanan jasa cetak bernama Cetak.id dengan menggunakan metode User Centered Design (UCD). Pada tahap pengujian dilakukan 2 kali dengan menguji 5 aspek usability. Pengujian pertama dilakukan berdasarkan hasil desain yang dibuat, sedangkan pengujian kedua dilakukan berdasarkan hasil perbaikan desain dari pengujian pertama. Berdasarkan pengujian pertama dan kedua pada masing-masing kelompok pengguna dari penyedia jasa dan pencari jasa diperoleh hasil yaitu aspek Learnability mengalami peningkatan masing-masing sebesar 12% dan 8%, aspek Efficiency mengalami peningkatan masing-masing sebesar 0,043 goals/second dan 0,023 goals/second. Pada aspek Memorability mengalami peningkatan masing-masing sebesar 16,14% dan 19,85%. Pada aspek Error mengalami penurunan masing-masing sebesar 0,04 dan 0,09, sedangkan pada aspek Satisfaction menggunakan Questionnaire for User Interaction Satisfaction (QUIS) masing-masing mengalami peningkatan, indikator 1 sebesar 0,64 dan 0,72, indikator 2 sebesar 0,7 dan 0,3, indikator 3 sebesar 0,83 dan 0,73, indikator 4 sebesar 0,87 dan 0,7, dan indikator 5 sebesar 0,84 dan 0,68.
Deciphering Assumptions in Lawmaking: Towards a More Human-Centric Approach
Authors: Pawinska Maria
Published: October 2024

This study investigates the assumptions legislators make about the recipients of laws, drawing parallels with the homo oeconomicus model. We question whether laws are crafted under the belief that recipients are instrumental rational individuals who strive to maximize profit and minimize or evade penalties. Key objectives include evaluating the influence of these assumptions on lawmaking and determining how a shift in these beliefs may impact the law itself. The research methodology combines an analysis of Polish and American court rulings and judicial models. The study argues for the necessity of a paradigm shift, recognizing that legal subjects do not always act logically or rationally. Our research concludes that recognizing the behavioral nuances in law recipients could lead to more effective lawmaking, introducing behavioral laws and regulatory tools better suited to average, not always rational, recipients.
1899–1900
Authors: Rennie David A.
Published: October 2024

Covers Ogston’s adventures in the Boer War. Ogston’s address at the 1899 gathering of the British Medical Association roused the ire of certain high-seated professionals among the medical establishment. Therefore, despite going with Queen Victoria’s official sanction, Ogston encountered resistance from the medical authorities in South Africa. Nevertheless, he was attached to Lord Methuen’s column, to which Ogston acted as an unofficial medical consultant. Having reached Kroonstadt, Ogston, gravely ill with typhoid, was invalided home in May 1900.
1919–1929
Authors: Rennie David A.
Published: October 2024

The concluding chapter discusses Ogston’s final years: the publication of Reminiscences of Three Campaigns (1919) and his impressive legacy as an educator, researcher, and advocate for military-medical improvements.
Gezi Park, 2013: Protesting and Resisting the AKP
Authors: Dorroll Courtney , Dorroll Philip
Published: October 2024

This chapter explores the Gezi movement as a response to the AKP-led attempts to reshape the urban landscape in accordance with Erdoğan’s neo-Ottomanism. This chapter argues that at Gezi a protest public sphere formed to critically oppose Erdoğanian neo-Ottomanism’s manipulation of the public sphere. Participant observation at Gezi Park and survey research of respondents at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul associated with or opposed to the protests reveal the ways in which the Gezi Park incident dramatically exposed the disconnect between moralising social narratives of AKP policies and the AKP’s exploitation of the built environment, a connection that constitutes the spatial politics of the AKP. In addition, this chapter explores the fraught relationship that the Gezi movement has with the past public space that it successfully occupied, which had become a haven for secular Turkish identities because it had decades beforehand seen the forcible displacement of non-Turks, specifically Greek Orthodox, at the hands of secular Turkish nationalism.
Conclusion
Authors: Dorroll Courtney , Dorroll Philip
Published: October 2024

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A Cinema of Pleasure: He Xiaopei’s Home Video Aesthetics and Queer Feminist Politics
Authors: Bao Hongwei
Published: October 2024

As a leading feminist and queer filmmaker and activist from the PRC, He Xiaopei uses documentary filmmaking to engage with contemporary feminist and queer issues in China and globally. Her film The Lucky One (宠儿‎, 2012) documents the last days of a woman living with HIV/AIDS; Our Marriages: Lesbians Marry Gay Men (奇缘一生‎, 2013) portrays the ‘co-operative marriage’ (形式婚姻‎) between lesbians and gay men; Yvo and Chrissy (如此生活‎, 2017) interviews queer anarchists living in the UK under austerity; and Playmates (玩伴‎, 2019) interrogates interracial and intercultural relationships between children who grow up together in the same household. Underlining all these films is a sense of play, pleasure and fun, which He Xiaopei uses to disrupt rigid boundaries of identities. This affective politics indexes He Xiaopei’s queer feminist intervention. As she challenges the male dominance in LGBTQ politics, she also problematises the often sex-negative attitude popular in contemporary feminist politics. He Xiaopei’s queer feminist politics is therefore intersectional and international, subversive and reparative at the same time. It departs from the ‘telling-bitterness’ tradition of identity politics and explores the political potential of play, pleasure and fun for an affective and transformative queer feminist politics.
Secular Coexistence in Lebanon
Authors: Abillama Raja
Published: October 2024

Secular Coexistence is a study of the coexistence of Christians and Muslims in Lebanon as it takes shape through Lebanese law. Coexistence, it argues, is a response to the contingent fact that Christians and Muslims are encompassed within the space of the secular state. As such, coexistence is neither a current projection onto an imagined past, nor an abstract ideal for a distant future, but a constitutive principle of an eminently secular social formation, embedded in the very concepts, practices, and attitudes that articulate it. The book shows that secular coexistence in Lebanon consists in a legal arrangement through which Muslims and Christians are secured in place and, at the same time, secured a place from which they are constrained and enabled to articulate their distinctiveness and difference in ways that are legally intelligible while containing their religious passions. Thus, coexistence is a constitutive power in so far as it requires of Christians and Muslims specific modes of belonging to comparable and interchangeable forms of life as (by) dispassionate bodies. Secular Coexistence in Lebanon is an anthropological contribution to scholars and students of secularism, religions, law, and the Middle East.
Tabdīl al-Dīn , Secular Displacement and Religious Conversion
Authors: Abillama Raja
Published: October 2024

Chapter 2 is an account of the concept and practice of ‘tabdīl al-dīn’ (‘the changing or switching of religion’). It examines tabdīl al-dīn in the context of a legal space organised in terms of religious jurisdictions in which movement across jurisdictions is admissible in principle. Tabdīl al-dīn is a complex structure that articulates religious conversion and legal (secular) displacement along a series of definite oppositions: the sincere and fraudulent, the authentic and strategic (or tactical, or instrumental), the willed and the coerced, the internal (e.g. beliefs) and external (performance). Accordingly, an act of tabdīl al-dīn, in so far as it remains open to question, involves both the ‘internal’ experience of turning away from one ‘set’ of religious beliefs to another (or none, or vice versa), an ‘internal’ movement of conscience or the soul, and the exercise or outward manifestation of thischange, and/or the ‘external’ switching of religious jurisdictions and consequent change of the regime of personal status under which one falls. Since the relationship between the two movements is notobvious, tabdīl al-dīn lends itself to scepticism and, in some cases, suspicion – an effect of the secular rationality of coexistence.
Feminising Romantic Sexuality, Perverting Feminine Romanticism
Authors: Ready Kathryn
Published: October 2024

This essay suggests that scholarship on transgressive sexuality in the field of Romantic studies has lagged behind comparable scholarship in the fields of eighteenth-century and Victorian studies. It shows how women’s writing in particular has come to be excluded from the conversation among Romanticists interested in the history of sexuality, in significant part because of the direction of early scholarship on female Romantic writers. This scholarship posited competing traditions of ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ Romanticism, variously defined but with a combined effect of creating a two-sex model of Romanticism that has tended to gloss over the engagement of women writers with sexuality. The essay traces notable contributions to thinking about sexuality in relation the male Romantic writers since the eras of Mario Praz, Michel Foucault and Thomas Laqueur and gestures towards how female Romantic writers might be meaningfully brought into dialogue with the growing body of scholarship on transgressive sexuality in Romantic studies.
Resistive Embodiment and Incestuous Desire in Mary Shelley’s Mathilda
Authors: Veronie Crystal
Published: October 2024

This essay introduces ‘resistive embodiment’ as a keyword for critical examination of strategies of writing in Mary Shelley’s novel Mathilda. Strategies of writing in the novel parallel similar discourse in women’s writing of the era, whereby bodies are variously depicted as resisting the masculine gaze. In the case of Mathilda, the heroine’s body is shown as thwarting her father’s unnatural desires by short-circuiting feminine passivity. Contrary to social expectations, Matilda’s body revolts ‘with winged speed’ and frees her from her father’s control. In addition, strategies of writing imply that the illness that follows this encounter and which eventually claims Matilda’s life is rooted in a complex co-operative relationship between Matilda’s desires and her body’s responses. Through its exploration of physiological responses to the imagined taint of her father’s transgressive desire, Mathilda offers key insights into Shelley’s views on the transgressive nature of erotic desire and reflects the guarded position of women at the moment at which bodies had come under increasing medical surveillance.
Can Realism Speak of Affect?
Authors: Manning Nicholas
Published: October 2024

Chapter 1 asks whether realism can be said to ‘represent’ affect, if affect is understood as that which is most other, both to the inner subject and to narrative diegesis. Reading against the grain of visions of realism as a fundamentally reactionary tradition, analyses of the fiction of Walker Percy and Saul Bellow will demonstrate the extent to which such writing strives precisely to speak of affect’s silences, to represent its unrepresentable voids. I will propose that this paradox, which moreover mirrors the disparities of artifice at the heart of the affective self, is in fact integral to modern realist projects. Affect is thus seen not to be beyond the scope of realism, but to be broached in complex ways by realist texts’ highlighting of the paradoxes of emotional representation.
Beyond Natural Feeling: The Body as Artifice
Authors: Manning Nicholas
Published: October 2024

Chapter 2 traces the myth of the natural origins of literary affect, arguing that not only does a natural biological emotion – in the sense of a stable a priori anchorage in the body – not exist, but its projected role as foundation of literary emotionality confers to literature the role of secondary confirmation of prior affective hierarchies. Basing an alternative vision of literary affect on the artificialisation of corporality in thinkers such as Georges Canguilhem, this chapter explores the denunciation of the quest for natural emotionality in John Cheever and Philip Roth, whose characters both dream of a natural foundation to their feelings and intensely suffer from its absence or loss. Tracing the drastic consequences of such efforts to locate a natural affect at the basis of all actions and beliefs, such fiction elaborates a related condemnation of the cultural valuation, central to American modernity, of the unified and autonomous self.
The Hidden City: James Kay, Friedrich Engels and Mary Barton ’s Cellars
Authors: Moore Ben
Published: October 2024

This chapter analyses James Kay, Friedrich Engels and Elizabeth Gaskell’s writing on industrial Manchester, paying particular attention to Mary Barton (1848). It takes as its focus the cellar-dwelling, a new concept of the 1830s and 40s. It argues that Manchester’s underground cellars, which are associated particularly with the working class, operate as a form of invisible architecture in that they are unseen or hidden but also fundamental to the city. In this sense they can be understood as a kind of spatial unconscious. The chapter also considers how Kay’s 1832 pamphlet on Manchester cotton-workers seeks to bring this part of the city into greater visibility for the middle classes.
Gothic Architecture and Urban Modernity
Authors: Moore Ben
Published: October 2024

Arguing against a conception of Gothic architecture as straightforwardly anti-modern, this chapter traces a literary tradition of associating Gothic architecture with both visibility and invisibility in the nineteenth-century city. Drawing on writers including Frank Lloyd Wright, Ernst Bloch, Nikolai Gogol, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola and Henry James, the chapter proposes that Gothic churches and cathedrals offered various writers an imaginative resource for thinking through the uneven modernity of this period. Through these readings, Gothic emerges as a model for a transformed modern subjectivity rather than something merely archaic.
The Whiteness of the City
Authors: Moore Ben
Published: October 2024

This chapter explores nineteenth-century spatial and architectural whiteness, as a precursor and contrast to the white walls of modernism. Beginning from Moby-Dick’s (1851) famous chapter on the whiteness of the whale, nineteenth-century whiteness is read as an aesthetic feature that is both blindingly visible and hauntingly empty, and which can be both ideological and utopian. Drawing on authors including Charles Dickens, Charles Kingsley, Elizabeth Gaskell and Émile Zola, the chapter discusses whitewashing, ornament, fashion, and the targeting and isolating of subjects. It concludes with a reading of Mr Carker in Dombey and Son, whose unsettling whiteness is analysed through the anxieties generated by the British Empire, making him a feminised and racialised figure that repeats in another form the dichotomies discussed in this chapter and across the book.
Conclusion
Authors: Toksöz Mina , Kutlay Mustafa , Hale William
Published: October 2024

In conclusion, the prevalence of industrial policies in the world is noted, not only for catch-up by late-industrialisers but also developed economies responding to the challenges of the covid epidemic, global warming, wealth inequality and low productivity growth, and geo-strategic rivalries. But the successful implementation of industrial policy is difficult and requires a number of conditions that this case-study of Turkey highlights. The most important is the institutional context. Enhanced state capacity, rule of law, political ownership, and a responsive business sector are needed to avoid ‘state capture’ or ‘market capture’ of industrial policies. Favourable global conditions and macroeconomic stability are the other two factors supporting industrial policy effectiveness. In the case of Turkey – as in other middle-income economies such as Brazil, macroeconomic instability and uncertainty undermined the long-term investments for tech-upgrade, with the role of incentives and other industrial policy measures reduced to Keynesian counter-crisis policies. Finally, there is a warning on protectionism in many recent industrial policies – especially in advanced economies, and a reminder that a major factor in the successful post-WWII industrialisation of Asian economies such as South Korea was their combination of elements of (temporary) protectionism with export orientation.
Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf: Proto-Ecofeminists?
Authors: Wylie Dan
Published: October 2024

This chapter begins by exploring briefly the contested meanings of the term ‘ecofeminist’, before then interrogating the validity of applying it anachronistically to writers Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf. It examines aspects of their writings that appear remarkably congruent, including similar turns towards natural environs as source of meditative creativity; assertions of underlying unities coursing through material existence, involving a turn away from the religious towards the secular and scientific; some sense of continuity between human and non-human animals; and objections to cruelty towards animals combined with a certain misanthropic streak. Both puzzled over the place of morality, words and the accultured imagination in an apparently indifferent natural universe, while gesturing towards ecofeminism’s keynote anti-patriarchal ethics of care and cooperation. However, despite a plethora of references to ‘nature’, neither writer’s stance was fully coherent, worked-through, or consistent over time. Both hinted at, but neither fully addressed, a fundamental question of ecofeminism: how natural ecosystems, animals, and women are connectedly oppressed by patriarchy. Nevertheless, it is suggested that Schreiner and Woolf in parallel made a number of moves towards ideas and perspectives later central to ecofeminist theory and practice.
The Influence of Olive Schreiner on Howard Thurman and, through Thurman, on Martin Luther King, Jr.
Authors: Barends Heidi
Published: October 2024

In 1925, Howard Thurman, a prolific African American scholar, writer, and theologian, was introduced to the writings of Olive Schreiner. This chapter will use Thurman’s A Track to the Water’s Edge: The Olive Schreiner Reader (1973) as an entry point to explore the complex transnational influences of Schreiner’s life and writing on Thurman. Additionally, this chapter will argue that connections may be drawn between Olive Schreiner and American civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr, through Schreiner’s impact on Thurman. That Thurman had a profound influence on King (and other civil rights leaders), particularly with regard to notions of social transformation and non-violence, is well-documented. This chapter considers a range of material drawn from Schreiner’s letters and published writings to trace a complex ideological trajectory from the life, thought and writings of Schreiner (1855-1920) to the Civil Rights movement (1954-1968) of Black Americans in the United States.
Olive Schreiner and the New Women of New Zealand: Feminist Solidarities Across the Southern Colonies
Authors: Barnes Emma
Published: October 2024

This chapter demonstrates how Schreiner’s influence reached far beyond the literary and political networks of which she was directly part. The impacts of Schreiner’s feminist arguments and experimental writing extended to Aotearoa New Zealand, a country Schreiner never visited, and its feminist literary cultures continue to be shaped by the afterlives of her writing. The chapter analyses the intertextual significance of Olive Schreiner’s writings in Louisa Baker’s 1894 novel, A Daughter of the King, the subtitle of which is ‘An Answer to “The Story of an African Farm”’; and Jane Mander’s novel, A Story of a New Zealand River (1920), which incorporates several references and allusions to Schreiner’s most famous novel and allegories from Dreams (1890). In considering the interrelation of South African and New Zealand literary cultures, this chapter examines New Woman writing within the context of what Sarah Comyn and Porscha Fermanis describe as the ‘southern archive’ (2021, p.3), a nuanced form of knowledge exchange that emerges from missionary circuits and settler-Indigenous relations. I develop a newly gendered understanding of the southern archive by considering how Schreiner’s literary presence in New Zealand facilitated the formation of another form of knowledge exchange grounded in a white, feminist literary network.
Scotland and Cinema: The Iniquity of the Fathers
Authors: McArthur Colin , Murray Jonathan
Published: October 2024

This essay examines the construction of Scotland and the Scots in the films of Hollywood, metropolitan British studios and indigenous Scottish production mechanisms to reveal the limited and recurrent discourses which shape these films. It goes on to propose alternatives which it sees as more aesthetically interesting and politically progressive.
Scotland’s Story
Authors: McArthur Colin , Murray Jonathan
Published: October 2024

An account of how Scotland’s Story (1984), a multipart TV series about Scottish history, presents itself as radical and forward-looking but is in fact ensnared in regressive discourses about Scotland and primarily driven by the aim of being accepted in the American market. The series also displays the characteristic tropes of mainstream tele-history, such as the centrality of individual testimony and unaccountable off-screen narration.
Wake for a Glasgow Culture Hero
Authors: McArthur Colin , Murray Jonathan
Published: October 2024

A celebration of Murray Grigor’s film about the Glasgow newspaper cartoonist Bud Neill and his creation Lobey Dosser. The film (and Neill’s cartoon strip) draws extensively on Glasgow working class culture and American popular culture while making periodic references to high art and culture. The essay argues that the film embodies the principles of Poor Cinema.
Culloden: A Pre-emptive Strike
Authors: McArthur Colin , Murray Jonathan
Published: October 2024

A warning that on the evidence of previous commemorations of notable Scottish events, the upcoming two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Culloden is likely to be suffused with sentimental, elegiac and politically regressive discourses. In the attention it pays to the history of the Culloden memorial cairn the essay is highly relevant to the current debate about whether memorial statuary should ever be removed for ideological reasons.
Artists and Philistines: The Irish and Scottish Film Milieux
Authors: McArthur Colin , Murray Jonathan
Published: October 2024

Comparing the different historical relationships of Scotland and the Republic of Ireland with the British state, the essay traces how these feed into the nature and policy priorities of the major public-funding film institutions of both countries. It demonstrates how in Ireland the relationship delivered a film-funding institution operating dialectically with the Hollywood hegemony, while in Scotland the result was an institution subservient to that hegemony. This was reflected in the distinctive bodies of work produced by the institutions.
Caledonianising Macbeth , or, How Scottish is ‘The Scottish Play’?
Authors: McArthur Colin , Murray Jonathan
Published: October 2024

This essay explores the extent to which Shakespeare’s contemporaries saw Macbeth as referencing Scotland and goes on to track successive theatre and cinema versions of Shakespeare’s play from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, indicating which were ‘caledonianised’ and how and to what extent this was so. Extended analyses of film versions of Macbeth by Orson Welles and Roman Polanski respectively form central component parts of the discussion.
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Cultural Struggle in the British Film Institute
Authors: McArthur Colin , Murray Jonathan
Published: October 2024

This essay is by way of a memoir of the writer’s ten years in the senior management of the British Film Institute and of his restructuring of the departments concerned with film distribution and regional policy. It is centrally concerned with policy questions and indicating the extent to which proposed policies won support or were contested by the BFI’s Board of Governors and the regional constituency.
Scotch Myths , Scottish Film Culture and the Suppression of Ludic Modernism
Authors: McArthur Colin , Murray Jonathan
Published: October 2024

This essay argues that Scottish Film Culture’s historic hostility to modernism (ludic and otherwise) is exemplified by the cold-shouldering and virtual suppression of Murray Grigor’s early-1980s film Scotch Myths by key Scottish film cultural institutions. As a partial remedy, the essay canvasses a form of non-economistic marketing and documentation of Scottish cinema based on the practice of several European film industries.
Introduction: Narratives and Politics
Authors: Uğur-Çinar Meral
Published: October 2024

This chapter introduces the conceptual, theoretical, and methodological framework of the book. It discusses the main contributions of the book and introduces the remaining chapters of the book.
Can Money Buy Freedom? Narratives of Economic Development and Democracy in Turkey
Authors: Uğur-Çinar Meral
Published: October 2024

This chapter focuses on the relationship between narratives of economic development and prospects for democracy. It does so by tracing the political speeches of high-ranking Turkish government officials and journalists close to them to show how they use arguments for economic development as a tool to politically legitimize interventions to liberal democracy. By demonstrating the potentially disruptive effects of economic development narratives to democracy, it hopes to shed new light on the relationship between democracy and economic development. The chapter also delves into the question of how institutional settings and structural conjectures provide opportunities for certain political narratives to thrive. In particular, the chapter shows how the transformations that led to the rise of neopopulism were also responsible for the expansion of economic narratives at the expense of democracy and human rights.
The Populist Repertoire: Stories of Development, Patriarchy and History in Austria, Hungary and Turkey
Authors: Uğur-Çinar Meral
Published: October 2024

This chapter discusses how political narratives reinforce populism by instigating a certain sense of peoplehood and depicting the leader as the embodiment of the people as well as urging the leader to act unilaterally on behalf of the people at the expense of societal pluralism and institutional checks on the executive. Using contemporary Turkey, Hungary and Austria as cases studies, it demonstrates how stories of history, development and patriarchy are deployed by populist leaders Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (AKP), Viktor Orban (Fidesz), and Heinz-Christian Strache (Freedom Party-FPÖ). In the form of historical narratives, citizens are told the story of a nation moving through history with the leader furthering historical struggles that rhyme with the past. In economic stories, the leaders work for the prosperity and fairness their people against obstacles presented by internal and external forces. In patriarchal stories, the leader justifies vertical decision-making despite comradeship with the people by assuming the role of the protector of the people. All these forms of stories, which are among the most common but not exclusive, people are defined and redefined in particular ways. The exclusion of certain citizens from “the people” is justified on historical, economic or patriarchal grounds.
The modernity of tradition and the cinematic Camargue
Authors: Scheie Timothy
Published: October 2024

This chapter traces the genealogy of the cinematic Camargue, the distinct region on the Mediterranean coast where many of the pre-1914 French Westerns were made. Filmmakers and Provençal nationalists, each with their purpose, drew inspiration from Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West to shape the images of the region seen on the screen. However, in the 1920s and 1930s, films set in a traditional Camargue eliminate the overtly western elements that sowed ambiguity in the earlier productions. Nonetheless, the traditions, people, and landscapes in these films remain, in significant measure, a modern creation inspired both by a technologically sophisticated spectacle of mass entertainment and the mythic West it exploited.
Cowboy and alien: the Bardot western
Authors: Scheie Timothy
Published: October 2024

Brigitte Bardot’s singularly visible stardom had international appeal, and she has been named the emblem of a cosmopolitan, transatlantic film culture. Three films stage the encounter of Bardot’s star image and the western genre. However, Bardot’s incandescent star poses a challenge to filmmakers, who must devise a strategy for containing, harnessing or surrendering to the imposing persona she loads into the western narrative. In Viva Maria!, Shalako and Les Pétroleuses/The Legend of Frenchie King, Bardot’s performances resist organizing logics, be they of a French cinematic assertion, of the western genre or of a transnational “Frenchness.” In these often-overlooked Westerns, Bardot is at once the emblem of transnational circulation and of a failure to “translate” that is both figurative and literal.
‘Legitimate Rape’ and Toxic Masculinity from Todd Akin to Soranus
Authors: Gellar T. H. M.
Published: October 2024

T.H.M. Gellar-Goad situates modern pseudo-scientific ideas about women’s bodies in a tradition dating back at least to the first/second-century CE Greek medical writer Soranus of Ephesus. He explores the similarities and differences in ancient and modern ideas about consent, desire, and women’s bodies and minds. Soranus treats women as irrational creatures beholden to physical urges, but the modern viewpoint grants women a sovereignty of mind over body, suggesting that pregnancy only occurs if the woman desires it to. Comparing this to the 2012 comments by Todd Akin, the Republican Senate candidate for Missouri, about ‘legitimate rape’, Gellar-Goad argues that modern manifestations of this sort of misogynistic misinformation are even more harmful than ancient ones.
The Metamodern Slasher Film
Authors: Jones Steve
Published: October 2024

The Metamodern Slasher Film argues that contemporary slasher movies embody a turn towards the metamodern sensibility, thereby debunking the prevailing notion that the subgenre has been dominated by unoriginal remakes since the mid–2000s. The book argues that a significant body of contemporary slasher films innovate within the subgenre by employing approaches and techniques such as hypercoding. The book uses metamodern theory to explain these developments, connecting them to broader cultural turns towards sincerity, optimism in the face of crisis, and an emphasis on felt experience. The book accounts for over 150 films, providing in-depth analysis of 20 key case studies. The Metamodern Slasher Film offers new ways to understand the horror genre, and our current cultural moment. It is the first academic work to use metamodernism to examine horror, and the first monograph to apply metamodernism to a specific aspect of popular culture in a sustained way. The book makes a significant contribution by refining metamodernism for future use.
Subtraction
Authors: Jones Steve
Published: October 2024

Chapter 5 uses three case studies to demonstrate how subtracting or compressing conventional subgeneric elements can be a mode of innovation. KillerKiller (2007) retains the slasher subgenre’s formula of individuals being picked off within a defined location, but replaces the subgenre’s expected protagonists (conventional teens) with a group of killers, who are eliminated by the film’s 'Final Girl': a supernatural entity who stands in for the killers' previous victims. Murder Loves Killers Too (2009) adjusts the conventional slasher narrative’s standard pacing, compressing most of its slaughter into the film’s opening half-hour. That atypical structure is exploited to offer insights into the subgenre’s usual operations. I Didn't Come Here to Die (2010) entirely subtracts the slasher from its standard 'teens camping in the woods' setup. These case studies evince the subgenre’s robustness and the potential for innovation by amending or removing seemingly essential elements.
Hong Kong Crime Films
Authors: Van den Troost Kristof
Published: October 2024

This book details the post-war history of the Hong Kong crime film up to the release of John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow (1986), the film that put the genre on the map globally. It coins the term “criminal realism” to not only describe the brand of realism one finds in crime films, but also to highlight how depictions of Hong Kong’s social reality (including crime) were for decades anxiously policed by colonial censors—in other words, how realism was often literally “criminal” (or illegal). In a cultural and intellectual environment that highly valued “realism” as progressive and modern, “criminal realism” in addition refers to a realism that was, due to its unabashedly commercial and sensationalist character, illegitimate in the eyes of most local critics. To make these arguments, the book draws extensively on government and other archives. The result is more than just a genre history of the Hong Kong crime film; it also is also a close study of the impact of censorship on a popular cinema.
Detectives and Suspense Thrillers: Remaking Hitchcock in Hong Kong
Authors: Van den Troost Kristof
Published: October 2024

Chapter 2 completes the overview of the post-war crime film by looking at films organised around two other central protagonists of crime films: detectives (the detective film) and victims (the suspense thriller). The discussion of the detective film highlights the local versions of films featuring the famous Chinese American film detective, Charlie Chan. It also singles out for attention the action star Tso Tat-wah, someone so known for his detective roles that decades later people still referred to him affectionately as ‘Detective Tso’. The overview of the suspense thriller deals with the role of the Kong Ngee film studio and the influential ‘999’ series of crime films it produced. Through a close comparative analysis of Backyard Adventures (1955) and the film it was inspired by, Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954), this chapter finally also engages questions surrounding the role of the individual director vis-à-vis a genre, and the relationship between Hong Kong and other cinemas.
The New Wave, Critical Discourse and Deepening Localisation
Authors: Van den Troost Kristof
Published: October 2024

Chapter 5 looks mainly at the Hong Kong New Wave in the late 1970s and the early 1980s. As directors’ New Wave status was largely a discursive product of what Hector Rodriguez (2001) has called the ‘film cultural field’, the term ‘New Hong Kong Cinema’ is adopted to indicate the broader generational change that took place in Hong Kong cinema at this time. A fresh cycle of problem youth films arose partly in response to renewed societal and political alarm surrounding juvenile delinquency. Amongst these, Dangerous Encounter of the First Kind (1980) broke out of the cycle’s ideological constraints, resulting in a famous clash with the film censors. Meanwhile, like the problem youth films and the immigrant gangster films, police films further enriched the discourse surrounding Hong Kong identity during this period. They did this by exploring the distinctive local police culture and engaging contemporary perceptions of the police force, which were then in rapid flux. The chapter concludes by detailing the transition to the new paradigm fully inaugurated with the release and success of A Better Tomorrow in 1986.
Alienation of the knower, the producer and the actor
Authors: Helander Sofia Anceau
Published: October 2024

The chapter examines the internal debate on alienation and its underlying assumption of the subject. It traces the concept from Hegel’s alienated ‘knower’, via Marx’s alienated ‘producer’, to the alienated ‘actor’ captured by contemporary social theory. The analysis shows that while Marx’s concept of alienation is clearly radical, it has been criticized for being essentialist and thus not sufficiently open. Rahel Jaeggi’s recent reconstruction of the concept of alienation, on the other hand, while being open, does not fully become the social and potentially radical theory that Jaeggi seeks. When opening up the conception of alienation – from alienated production to impaired appropriation, and its corresponding conception of the subject– from a producer to an actor – it loses its capacity to capture power and antagonism; it cannot be mobilized for social change. The internal debate on alienation thus leaves us with a dilemma, suspending us between openness and radicalism.
Towards an open and radical concept of alienation
Authors: Helander Sofia Anceau
Published: October 2024

The aim of the chapter is to reconstruct a concept of alienation that is both open and radical. More specifically, it does so by drawing on the work of Jaeggi’s open theory and Marx’s radical one – as well as Bourdieu’s theories of domination and habitus as a link between the two. In the resulting reconstruction of the concept, the subject is alienated when she is dominated and disoriented. When dominated, others systematically appropriate social power at her expense; when disoriented, the subject’s practical meaning and sense-making is socially impaired. For the alienated subject, these two processes are interlinked, leaving her unable to appropriate her life and her world. Alienation, thus conceived, addresses the meaninglessness and powerlessness experienced by dominated groups in societies marked not only by inequality, but also by disorder and dislocation.
Alienation versus acedia
Authors: Helander Sofia Anceau
Published: October 2024

The chapter examines the reconstructed concept of alienation: whether it lives up to the criteria of radicalism and openness, and how it differs from Rahel Jaeggi’s concept of alienation from which it was developed. It argues that the reconstructed concept of alienation retains the openness of Jaeggi’s theory, while at the same time radicalizing it. In particular, it allows us to distinguish alienation, a form of domination deepened by disorientation, from what the author, drawing on Walter Benjamin, call acedia – the unease experienced by the dominant when they become disoriented. While acedia captures only the experience of the dominant, alienation can be used to mobilize the dominated against the dominant in a radical social struggle.