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Rorty and the Ethos of the Pragmatic Community: Replies
Authors: Voparil Chris
Published: September 2023

Abstract: In this essay I respond to four commentators who participated in a symposium on my book, Reconstructing Pragmatism. Issues that emerge include: Addams’s and Rorty’s mutual commitment to cultivating affective rationality; how Royce and Rorty share an ethical imperative in their philosophy and where both can learn from Alain Locke; what a post-Rortyan pragmatism might look like and the best path toward realizing it; the significance of recovering the serious, unironic Rorty and the limits of weak misreadings; Rorty’s pragmatic maxim; and reflections on how best to sustain the habits and practices of a robust pragmatic tradition and community. In places, for understandable reasons the commentaries stray from the book’s argument about Rorty’s relation to classical pragmatism and address larger issues surrounding Rorty’s work and its broader reception. I don’t respond to all such matters but try to here and there, which hopefully gives what follows a relevance for contemporary pragmatism beyond the book itself.
Reducing Illation to Sign Relation: The Roots of Peirce’s General Theory of Signs
Authors: Metzger Scott
Published: September 2023

Abstract: This article builds on Bellucci’s and Murphey’s accounts of Peirce’s early logic of signs by making a pair of contributions to the literature on Peirce’s reduction of illation to the sign relation. First, I reinvesti-gate the connection between the structure of inference and the representative relation, relying here on Peirce’s early accounts of sign inference from 1865 and 1866. Second, with the development of Peirce’s theory of inquiry in mind, I elucidate the implications of Peirce’s early view of sign inference. These contributions deepen our understanding of Fisch’s claim that the Illustrations series “is thought out within the framework of the doctrine of signs.”
Ecofeminist Ontology in Karen Warren's Ethic
Authors: Meierdiercks M. Laurel-Leigh
Published: September 2023

Abstract: In this paper I argue that ecofeminist theory needs a clearly stated ontological grounding in order to strengthen its ethical framework. In Karen Warren's work, she proposes an ecofeminist ethic delineated by "boundary conditions" which determine the approaches that cohere to ecofeminist concerns. One such condition is a reconceptualization of "what it is to be human." Here I trace the ontological assumptions present in Karen Warren's work in order to argue for the acceptance of a feminist, relational and context-dependent ontology as a boundary condition of an ecofeminist ethic. I propose that Karen Warren's approach to ontology functions similarly to her ethic in that she allows for a pluralistic approach to ontology and presents a number of boundary conditions that limit which ontologies can be deemed "ecofeminist ontologies." I conclude that Warren's ethic and ontology are closely intertwined and suggest that further ontological analysis of ecofeminist work could strengthen the growing field of ecofeminist ethics.
Knowledge Production Around and About Raced Covered Body: Reclaiming Muslim Female Body in Ecofeminist Theories of Embodiment
Authors: Erfani Rezvaneh
Published: September 2023

Abstract: Ecofeminists have called for adding an ecological dimension to gender research to address various forms of oppression that women experience in their daily lives and to explain how feminine exploitation of the planet results from the same logic of patriarchal domination. Now that the flow of essentialism-phobia (Field 2000, 39) has decreased, it seems that it is time to deal with the risky topic of the body in ecofeminist research and theory to make it more central in feminist epistemologies. Yet feminist theory needs to avoid repeating the past mistakes in theorizing embodiment from an ecofeminist point of view and pay proper attention to the questions of difference and diversity: whose body is being discussed and generalized? This paper builds upon the postcolonial ecofeminist perspectives of embodiment and highlights the diversity of lives and experiences of living in Others of cisgender heterosexual male bodies with a focus on covered raced body.
Monitoring the Potential of Lithuania's Civic Technologies Platforms to Co-create Collective Intelligence
Authors: Skaržauskiene˙ Aelita
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: This paper presents the findings of a systematic survey that evaluated the potential of online communities (or civic tech) in Lithuania to co-create collective intelligence. Civic intelligence is a form of collective intelligence exercised by a group's capacity to perceive societal problems and its ability to address them effectively. The research subject is "bottom-up" digital-enabled online platforms initiated by Lithuanian public organisations, civic movements, or business entities. Traditional approaches to public engagement remain relevant. Notwithstanding, our enquiry is more interested in the potential of digital-enabled citizens to increase efficient collective performance. This scientific project advances our understanding of the essential pre-conditions in online communities through which collective intelligence is being systematically co-created. By monitoring the performance of civic tech platforms, the scientific question was examined: What are the socio-technological conditions that led the communities to become more intelligent? The results of the web-based assessment were obtained by applying the collective intelligence monitoring technique.
Integrating Fairness in Machine Learning Development Life Cycle: Fair CRISP-DM
Authors: Singh Vivek K. , Joshi Kailash
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: Developing efficient processes for building machine learning (ML) applications is an emerging topic for research. One of the well-known frameworks for organizing, developing, and deploying predictive machine learning models is cross-industry standard for data mining (CRISP-DM). However, the framework does not provide any guidelines for detecting and mitigating different types of fairness-related biases in the development of ML applications. The study of these biases is a relatively recent stream of research. To address this significant theoretical and practical gap, we propose a new framework—Fair CRISP-DM, which groups and maps these biases corresponding to each phase of an ML application development. Through this study, we contribute to the literature on ML development and fairness. We present recommendations to ML researchers on including fairness as part of the ML evaluation process. Further, ML practitioners can use our framework to identify and mitigate fairness-related biases in each phase of an ML project development. Finally, we also discuss emerging technologies which can help developers to detect and mitigate biases in different stages of ML application development.
Evolving Towards Mobility-as-a-Service: Drivers and Consequences of Car Subscription Services
Authors: Larimian Taimaz , Taylor Kate Elise , Sadeghi Arash
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: This study investigates the emergence of car subscription services as a new development in the area of Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS). Our aim is to explore the drivers of the emergence of car subscription services, analyse its impact on the incumbent manufacturers, and investigate the impact of COVID-19. We adopt a qualitative approach based on in-depth, semi-structured interviews with managers of three car subscription service providers: a leading car manufacturer and two car subscription start-ups. We found three key behavioural and technological trends that drive the emergence and growth of car subscription services and highlighted the various opportunities and risks for the incumbent manufacturers.
Artificial Intelligence in Government: Risks and Challenges of Algorithmic Governance in the Administrative State
Authors: Vida Fernández José
Published: September 2023

Abstract: This article analyzes the legal implications of using artificial intelligence in government and how it is challenging the foundations of the administrative state. It begins by demonstrating that a new model of government is emerging, based on information and intelligence (i-Gov). To understand the nature and scope of this new i-Gov model, this article will explain what artificial intelligence really is and analyze the applications that are currently being carried out in the US and the EU. Next, it will review the regulatory framework that is emerging that regulates government use of artificial intelligence in both the US and the EU. Finally, the article concludes by identifying and analyzing the main legal and policy problems involved in the use of artificial intelligence in government. It challenges values, principles, and institutions of the traditional administrative state and also requires us to think of new frameworks for constitutional and administrative law to guarantee citizens' rights and public interest.
The Contentious Issues of Governance by Algorithms
Authors: Guglielmi Gilles J.
Published: September 2023

Abstract: The development of computerized tools that lead to decision-making processes which apply locally defined parameters poses many questions about democracy. These questions stem from our very conception of the state and its role, going beyond the boundaries of typical administrative law. According to a popular notion that permeates the practices of most executive branches in liberal political regimes, democratic concerns are now competing with managerial concerns. In order to analyze this idea, we must study the implementation of algorithms in administrative decision-making, underscoring both the changes to the characterization of administrative decisions and the questions raised about an administrative judicial review of litigation. To summarize a French administrative law judge's review so far, the judge began by assessing the legality of using algorithms in administrative procedures. Secondly, the judge reviewed the legality of making administrative decisions on the basis of an algorithm. Three issues now appear to be guiding the future of algorithm-based administrative decisions: (1) the security of legal transactions; (2) the compensation for harm or damage caused by the algorithms, and (3) the degree of in-depth review by the administrative judge.
On Facial Recognition, Regulation, and "Data Necropolitics"
Authors: Pele Antonio , Mulholland Caitlin
Published: September 2023

Abstract: This paper argues for actual and legal regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) and facial recognition. These new technologies represent great opportunities to improve the welfare of societies. However, some of their uses can also enhance discrimination and, eventually, lead to violence. From a comparative approach (examining the European Union and Brazil), we address the current and future aspects of facial regulation, AI, and personal data. This paper shows that regulation is relevant to protect the rule of law, free markets, and individual freedoms. It also examines the looming risks unfolding from the unregulated uses of new technologies. Our concept of "Data Necropolitics" defines a predatory form of digital governance that exploits and discriminates against vulnerable populations.
The Curtailment of Constitutional Rights and Mechanisms of Social Control in The People's Republic of China: Hubei Province Case at The Onset of The Covid-19 Pandemic
Authors: Trabucco Fabio Ratto
Published: September 2023

Abstract: This paper analyzes the curtailment of constitutional rights arising from the implementation of emergency measures due to the COVID-19 pandemic in China's Hubei Province, which was not at all counterbalanced by introducing new forms of due constitutional protection. Likewise, high expectations cannot be set on pre-existing means of constitutional safeguards since the Chinese government clearly refused to establish new or different safeguarding procedures nor did it deem it necessary to establish ad hoc courts in order to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper is laid out as follows: (1) fundamental rights in a contemporary socialist state: an overview; (2) containment measures against COVID-19 and flexibility of constitutional right;. (3) the centrality of governing bodies and restrictions of constitutional rights; (4) territorial governance and centralization of containment measures against COVID-19; (5) between soft law and totalitarian propaganda; and (6) the ubiquity of the Communist Party of China and the "alignment" of judicial functions.
The Memorial to Roma Genocide Victims in Navasyady, Belarus: Shifting Meanings and Mnemonic Communities
Authors: Bartash Volha
Published: September 2023

Abstract: This article investigates the story behind the memorial to Roma genocide victims in Navasyady, Belarus, which is marked by plaques and symbols from different epochs and commemorative traditions. After examining the official commemoration, from the first Soviet memorial "to the victims of fascism" in 1967 to the regional and national memory politics in post-Soviet Belarus, it focuses on the family commemoration at the site and the local responses to the family memorial erected in 1999. My analysis demonstrates the power of memorials to (re)shape social reality and reveals the relationship between the site of memory and three mnemonic communities—the survivor and her family, the village community and the local Roma community.
Race and Representation in Baroque Opera—Some Thoughts on Pedagogy, Scholarship, and Performance
Authors: Smith Ayana O.
Published: September 2023

Abstract: Our early music canon traces a narrative of cultural ritual and social representation that reveals national, political, and economic priorities, of both the past and the present—a function not altogether different from historic monuments, or from other culturally bounded architectural spaces, such as museums, or concert halls. As we interact with these objects from the past, what is our ethical responsibility in choosing how to present these materials—either in the classroom, in published scholarship, or in performance? Opera provides an interesting fluidity within this matrix of past and present, narrative and representation, cultural exchange and difference. Revealing layered meanings from the mimetic to the imaginary, operatic symbolisms challenge our relationships to the past, sometimes creating performative discomfort with race and ethnicity. This article examines intellectual frameworks and methodologies that can expand our interpretive lenses, while providing simple strategies and resources for classroom engagement that can (with alteration) also be fruitful for the studio and the stage. Drawing on excerpts from Rameau's "Les Sauvages" from his opera-ballet Les Indes galantes (1735), I explore layers of narrative and cultural symbolism regarding race and representation and question the limits of "exoticism" as a conceptual foundation.
Ultra-Orthodox Women's Reaction to the "Society of Learners" Model as a Motive among Israel's Ultra-Orthodox Feminists
Authors: Suzin Asher , Banai Ayelet , Cahaner Lee
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: The "Society of Learners" is an accepted research model that explains communal, religious, and sociological features among Lithuanian and Mizrahi communities in Israel. This model has become increasingly challenging for many ultra-Orthodox men and women. In this article we discuss reactions to the society of learners model as a motive for the establishment of the ultra-Orthodox feminist movement that was created in anticipation of the 2013 Knesset elections, and examine its role in the establishment of the movement. Through semi-structured, in-depth interviews we asked fifteen ultra-Orthodox women whether the model was a factor in the formation of ultra-Orthodox feminism and found three central motifs in their responses: a woman's place in the life of the individual and the repercussions of this model on the life of ultra-Orthodox women; the value of Torah study and resistance to the society of learners as an exclusive model; and lastly, the economic consequences of the model. This study adds a new facet to the theory of the society of learners and supports other studies of women from minority groups as agents of preservation and change. Hence, it contributes a better understanding of the ultra-Orthodox feminist movement in Israel which developed less than a decade ago.
Metric and Pitch Tension in Gustav Holst's "Mars, the Bringer of War"
Authors: Smith Jayson
Published: September 2023

Abstract: Although authors recognize the war-like nature of rhythm and meter in "Mars," their observations are mostly superficial. For example, Richard Greene briefly suggests the 5/4 ostinato is a metaphor for battle, but he does not detail the extent of this metaphor. Michael Short prescribes the persistent 5/4 meter as the movement's "most striking feature" and briefly mentions the hemiola created by the superposition of 5/2 over two bars of 5/4, but he does not detail the metric features of "Mars" any further. Dickinson and Gibbs claim the quintuple meter "precludes a dull monotony and makes a firm basis for theme and counter-theme." They point to musical features that deserve more attention, including "twisting trochees, trumpeted declamation, and uneven bar-rhythm."
The Effect of the Language of Instruction on Primary Students’ Performance: Evidence From Gulf States
Authors: Bouhlila Donia Smaali , Hentati Imen
Published: September 2023

Abstract: We explore the impact of the language of instruction on academic performance of Arabic-speaking students who are expected to learn mathematics and science in and through a second language (L2). Using as a theoretical background Cummins’s (1984) framework relating language proficiency to academic achievement, we provide some insights into the relationship between native language, second language proficiency, and academic achievement in mathematics and science among students whose “mother tongue” is Arabic. We employ a propensity score technique and use TIMSS 2019 standardized tests to explain the differences in achievement in mathematics and science between two groups of young children living in an Arabic dialect–dominated environment who get instruction in English and who receive instruction in classical Arabic. Our findings highlight that the language of instruction accounts for the variations in performance.
The Things We Already Know and the Things We're Set Up Not to See: Folkloristics, COVID-19, and the Traps of Amplification
Authors: Phillips Whitney , Tolbert Jeffrey A.
Published: September 2023

Abstract: COVID-19 folklore can be deadly. It also poses a particular set of challenges to researchers endeavoring to study it, and indeed, to researchers who are not actively studying it yet still find themselves confronted by it on their social media feeds. These challenges emerge from digital constraints and affordances that obscure—and are designed to obscure—digital folklore's full context, resulting in vexing problems of amplification, rampant artifactualization, and potential weaponization by bad actors. Folklorists can minimize these outcomes by drawing from methodological insights of the past, while at the same time zeroing in on the unique contours of the present. Erving Goffman's analysis of everyday performance, for instance, provides a critical methodological entry point to digital ethnographies, with one internet-era update. Online, seemingly backstage elements—from digital tools to platform affordances to algorithms—are a critical part of the frontstage. The ethnographic vistas that open up when the online backstage is reframed as the online frontstage help foster stronger, more nuanced digital folkloristics. This also encourages researchers to reflect on the reciprocal influences of technologies, and how we all impact our networks through everyday actions like sharing, commenting, and liking.
In Search of Hope amid Despair in Folklore of Epidemics
Authors: Zhang Juwen
Published: September 2023

Abstract: Facing the outbreak of an unprecedented pandemic, along with a disturbing sociopolitical environment, folklorists should and can reflect upon what we have done within our discipline and what we can contribute to the discourse and public understanding of such realities with folkloristic perspectives. This introduction intends to define the study of folklore of epidemics as a new research area, building upon the studies of disaster folklore and ethnic minority folklore. It also discusses issues of marginalization, minoritization, and invisibility in folklore studies as a reflection of systemic racism in folkloristics as well as in broader society where the victimization of minorities and low-income class during the COVID-19 pandemic has been ultimately exposed.
The Precarious Author, Diary of a Bad Year, Slow Man
Authors: Uhlmann Anthony
Published: September 2023

Abstract: The idea of the author and the "authority" on which works of fiction might be based has long been precarious, as evinced by the first modern novel, Don Quixote , when it challenged such authority. This precarity in turn is transferred to the very idea of meaning itself, and the possibility of somehow approaching the "truth." Two of Coetzee's later novels, Diary of a Bad Year and Slow Man shed light on the complex nature of authorial intention. Coetzee's doctoral dissertation and his engagement with New Critical, structuralist, and post-structuralist theory serve to frame the question. Like much of Coetzee's fiction, these works directly engage with the figure of the writer and provoke us to think about the ethical and epistemological implications of literary authority.
Coetzee and the Filipino Woman
Authors: Roces Mina
Published: September 2023

Abstract: The character Anya in J.M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year whether knowingly or unknowingly, reinforces white Australian stereotypes of the Filipino woman that Filipina feminists in Australia have tried valiantly to dismantle since the late 1980s. Placing Anya in the context of the history of Filipinas in Australia underscores the unique politics of race and gender that this group experienced. The stereotype of the sexualized Filipina that Anya represents contrasts greatly with the lived experiences of Filipina migrants in Australia, and Filipino cultural constructions of the feminine. Hence, while Filipinos will be offended by Anya, the danger is that Coetzee's Anya normalizes and affirms the white male construction of the sexual Filipina to a non-Filipino readership, further entrenching this image of the Filipina in the popular imagination of white Australians.
Migration and the South in J.M. Coetzee's Jesus Novels
Authors: Boehmer Elleke
Published: September 2023

Abstract: The first two novels in South African and Australian writer J.M. Coetzee's Jesus novel trilogy invite being read as studies in migration that explore the ambiguities of crossing over and arriving in a seeming "new life," as it is repeatedly called. The Childhood of Jesus (2013) and The Schooldays of Jesus (2016) dramatize this arrival as a one-way experience, with no possibility of return. Moreover, key features of the migrant crossing—contingency, isolation, an inarticulable mystery and strangeness, and repetition—are evoked through what we might term a southern poetics, following Coetzee's own definition of the "one south." This southern framing in turn throws light on the provinciality of the trilogy's settings, on the provisional and derivative nature of the lives lived there, and on the precarity of migrant crossings, not least in the south, including the Global South, today.
A Proposal for a Modest Modernism: A Review of Eliot and Beckett's Low Modernism by Rick de Villiers
Authors: Rabaté Jean-Michel
Published: September 2023

Abstract: Rick de Villiers combines close textual readings and theoretical contextualization to argue that T.S. Eliot and Samuel Beckett replace "high modernism" with a "low modernism" predicated on the dialectics of humility and humiliation. Moving between theological issues like Christ's kenosis, and the philosophy of self-effacement found in Arnold Geulincx, this subtle and informed book proves that the two writers gain by being read together, while modifying our sense of modernism as a whole.
Painful Productions: A Review of Hannah Simpson's Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness
Authors: Roberts Trask
Published: September 2023

Abstract: In Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness , Hannah Simpson orients our attention to the multiplicities of pain found in and disappeared from the postwar theatrical productions of Samuel Beckett. She demonstrates how the central themes of Beckett's oeuvre—corporeal (dis)functioning, the impotence of language, the (im)possibility for intersubjective understanding—are illuminated through the manner in which Beckett writes and stages pain. Simpson contrasts Beckett's treatment and representation of pain with those of some contemporaries; plays by Camus, Picasso, Ionesco, and Duras figure in respective chapters. Simpson's methodologies are varied, ranging from medical approaches to pain management and diagnoses to theories of trauma and witnessing.
The Praça of Geba - Marginalisation Past and Present as Resource
Authors: Kohl Christoph
Published: September 2023

Abstract: This article is about the former trading post of Geba, located in present-day Guinea-Bissau. Formerly Portugal's easternmost, biggest trading post and principal centre for the Afro-Atlantic encounter for almost four centuries in West Africa, it used to link the Empire of Kaabú with both the Americas and Europe. Following the Fula wars in the second half of the nineteenth century, Geba sank into decline and oblivion, now merely resembling - at least at first glance - an "ordinary", isolated village like so many others in the region. However, a closer examination of contemporary Geba, its inhabitants, and migrants, reveals how this marginality in various spheres (political, economic, cultural) is narratively transformed. As a spiritual and historical location, Geba is transformed into a powerful resource that facilitates interethnic and interreligious integration at the grass-roots level, creating and enhancing the self-respect of people linked to it. Cet article traite de l'ancien comptoir de Geba, en Guinée Bissau actuelle. Celui-ci est, jusqu'à la seconde moitié du XlXè siècle, le plus grand comptoir portugais - et celui situé le plus à l'est - ce qui le plaçait au centre des échanges entre l'Afrique et l'Atlantique. De plus, Geba permettait de relier l'empire de Kaabú, tout autant aux Amériques qu'à l'Europe. A la suite des guerres peuhls de la deuxième moitié du XIXème s, Geba décline, sort des mémoires et perd en importance jusqu'à n'être - du moins en apparence - qu'un village ordinaire et isolé comme tant d'autres dans la région. Cependant, une étude plus poussée de Geba aujourd'hui, de ses habitants et de ses migrants, révèle que cette marginalité, aussi bien au niveau politique qu'économique ou culturel, est transformée par les récits. En effet, en tant que lieu spirituel et historique, Geba est une importante ressource et favorise l'intégration ethnique et religieuse à la base, créant et renforçant l'estime que les populations tirent du passé de Geba.
Values and Music Education by Estelle R. Jorgensen (review)
Authors: Varkøy Øivind
Published: September 2023

Abstract: Inspired by Estelle Jorgensen’s book Values and Music Education (Indiana University Press, 2021), the author of this Book Review Essay, from a Scandinavian perspective, discusses the concept of value, the struggles of values, and the tension between universal values and relativism, as well as the fact that there is no such thing as a neutral position to speak from. Among thinkers and philosophers who have inspired these reflections are Charles Taylor, Chantal Mouffe, Simon Frith and Frede V. Nielsen.
Aesthetic Convention and Ritual Creativity in Late Antique Piyyut
Authors: Lieber Laura S.
Published: September 2023

Abstract: In this article, I will examine how liturgical poets creatively reworked biblical quotations and allusions in service of their own poetic and liturgical ambitions through analysis of a late antique composition attributed to Eleazar Haqallir (Qallir) (late sixth/early seventh century), “What Man Lives and Does not See Death?” This poem, which takes its opening line from Psalm 89:49, was composed for an occasion when the Torah reading began with Deuteronomy 33:1, Moses’s poetic blessing of the Israelites before his death. Qallir’s composition transforms the biblical episode into a miniature, multivoiced drama, one that draws on an extensive body of postbiblical exegetical tradition. First, it depicts Moses’s vigorous arguments with God and various heavenly intercessors as he seeks to avert his fate; upon conceding that he cannot escape mortality, it describes how Moses is mourned by not only the Israelites but all creation. The final portion of the piyyut transitions from a depiction of funerary ritual (in the biblical past) to the recitation of the Qedushah (in the liturgical present). With its complex, multivocal narrative, this composition illustrates how liturgical poets reworked biblical poetry—in this case, Deuteronomy 32–33 and Psalm 90—by reading it through the lens of postbiblical narrative traditions while also leveraging the performative-ritual context in which the poems were experienced. This poem’s reuse of traditional material reflects the aesthetic conventions of the poetic craft and performative practices of dramatic delivery in late antiquity.
Messianic Failure: Ondjaki and the Form of Critique
Authors: Waller Thomas
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: This article reads the turn toward the fantastic and the supernatural in postindependence Angolan literature as a critical registration of the trajectory of neoliberal politics in the country. After positing a homology between the corruption of "ideal-type" realism in 1960s Latin America and similar experiments in post-independence Angola, I argue that the fiction of Ndalu de Almeida (Ondjaki) should be understood as a continuation of the social commitment of earlier Angolan writers, as it deploys a set of non-realist aesthetic devices in order to challenge the entrenchment of political orthodoxies in the post-socialist Angolan state. To this end, I offer a reading of Ondjaki's 2012 novel Os Transparentes , which marks a rupture in the author's own intellectual development while also dovetailing with the recent wave of anti-governmental protests in Angola. Although the central fantastical motif of the novel—a man who is in the process of becoming transparent—has been read by critics as a critique of social inequality and kleptocratic governance, I suggest that it should rather be understood as an ambivalent registration of the encroaching feelings of disillusionment precipitated by the onset of Angola's neoliberal era. With reference to Jacques Lacan's concept of "the act," I read this ambivalence as a specifically ethical dilemma and draw attention to problems of communication and narrative in radical political movements.
Gender, Race, and the Biopolitics of Extractivism in the Poetry of Nontsizi Mgqwetho
Authors: McGiffin Emily
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: Published almost exclusively in the multilingual Johannesburg newspaper Umteteli wa Bantu during the 1920s, Nontsizi Mgqwetho's poetry is enmeshed with the racial and industrial politics of her time and place. Despite its denunciations of the colonial state and vehement calls for black unity and activism, her work is complicated by its publication in a newspaper sponsored by the Chamber of Mines. This article investigates Mgqwetho's forceful political poetry and its intersection with both the coercive, racist labor policies of the period and the discursive power of Umteteli wa Bantu . It argues that in linking her religious and political convictions with the social anxieties of her times, Mgqwetho's work provided the ford through the era's turbulent political waters.
Drone, Baby, Drone: Techno-neocolonialism and Postcolonial Mediations in Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift
Authors: Muthyala John
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: The Old Drift embodies Namwali Serpell’s ideas of colonialism and post-colonialism as unstable descriptors requiring an imaginative retelling of Zambian national history, an alternate centering of marginalized figures, and a critical assessing of social protest in a society saturated with digital technologies. The paper examines how error, chance, and contingency determine the geographic, biologic, and gendered dynamics of empire, ideology, and subaltern resistance. It argues that the novel dramatizes techno-neocolonialism as the nexus of information technology, government agencies, and international businesses that generate conditions of subalternity for peoples deemed as threats or superfluous to the social order sustained by the postcolonial State. The novel foregrounds the politics of popular protest in Zambia as the drift of postcolonial mediations—imprinted with violence, haunted by imperialism, shaped by postcolonial contradictions, influenced by natural environments, crusted over with contingency, and re-narrated with subaltern agency.
Dictatorship, Trauma, and Scriptotherapy in Remi Raji’s A Harvest of Laughters
Authors: Adebiyi-Adelabu Kazeem
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: This article examines how Remi Raji, a third-generation Nigerian poet, reenacts the social pains and “dis-eases” of the military dictatorship era in Nigeria in A Harvest of Laughters as traumatogenic, as well as how the poet writes himself out of the trauma. While the article espouses the extant critical notion that the poet offers laughter to the victims of structural violence, social pains, and “dis-eases” of the military rule era in the country as a balm, it complicates the view by arguing that the poet’s versification in the volume and, more importantly, his infatuated exploration of laughter is readable as scriptotherapy. The poems titled “Introit,” “I rise now,” “Gift,” “Black Laughter,” “Silence,” “Silence II,” “Orphan Cry”, and “Harvest I–VI” are used to demonstrate this. The analysis draws anchor from Laura Brown’s and Stef Craps’s conceptions of trauma and Geri Chavis’s and some other psychological therapists’ insights on writing and therapy.
Poetic Metaphor and Multi-Signification: A Rereading of Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease
Authors: Eze Virginia Obioma
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: This article explores the poetic metaphors and multi-signification in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease . The novel itself has been the focus of several readings, many of which pursue the humanistic and sociological orientations of the text as merely an instrument of communication about the post-independence sociopolitical and cultural realities of Achebe’s society. This manner of reading may be attributed to the birth of African literature and Afrocentrism, which many of the earlier writers, including Achebe, believe was a reaction to the poor Euro-American portrayal of Africa and Africans. But it forecloses the possibility of a grounded analytical methodology capable of opening up multiple possibilities of meanings in the text through the linguistic elements of literature. Relying on Paul Ricoeur’s depth semantic theory, this article explores the poetic metaphors of the text to unveil the multilayered meanings.
An Onomastic Analysis of Character Names in Bessie Head’s Maru and When Rain Clouds Gather
Authors: Ramaeba Goabilwe Nnanishie , Lopang Wazha
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: This literary onomastics paper explores character naming in two of Bessie Head’s novels, namely, When Rain Clouds Gather and Maru , both set in villages of Botswana. The purpose is to illustrate how the author uses character names to advance her themes and storylines. The paper relies heavily on the lexical transparency of the names from a structural linguistics perspective and on the sociocultural contexts of the names from a sociolinguistics perspective. The analysis reveals that Head’s choice of character names is intentional and deliberate, meant to achieve a specific purpose, and this is reflective of the process of names and naming in real life scenarios, particularly in the African context. The names mirror the sociocultural contexts of the characters and in the process reveal their personalities, physical attributes, and the types of relationships they have with other characters. The paper concludes that Head employs a lot of symbolism and irony in naming her characters, powerful features that help to effectively communicate her themes.
Mapping Tribes: Ottoman Spatial Thinking in Iraq and Arabia, c. 1910
Authors: Cole Camille Lyans , Barakat Nora Elizabeth , Ammagui Nada , Wrisley David Joseph
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: This article uses mixed digital methods to analyze a 1909/1910 Ottoman map of "tribal" territories in Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula that builds on existing Ottoman modes of depicting land and people to create a novel assertion of territoriality across the region. We analyze a digital artifact, created by joining the map to its companion informational table, to identify gaps and moments of uncertainty in the imperial knowledge-production process. We then read the map alongside a variety of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Ottoman and British sources of different genres which also address the production of imperial territoriality in the region. While the differences in how these sources collect and present information prevent us from drawing direct data comparisons, visualizations of data derived from these sources enable us to explore the contours of an expansive project of Ottoman sovereignty across Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula, and to situate that project in a broader framework of inter-imperial competition. We argue that this kind of exploratory digital combination reveals the expansive nature of the late Ottoman imperial project, and its completist aims, in contrast to common depictions of the late Ottoman state as contracting and its governing practices as "flexible" or "fuzzy."
Building a Digital Tabaqat: Challenges, Opportunities, and Research Prospects
Authors: Atçıl Abdurrahman , Günaydın Salih , Kami Gürzat , Karaarslan Abdullah
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: The concept of digital tabaqat refers to the ambition to create biographical databases that combine two seemingly contradictory aims: preserving native categories in the source material from which the data are extracted and creating a common interface that allows data from diverse sources, periods, and regions speak to one another. In this article, we present the ongoing Ulema Database project, which aims to develop a relational and semantic database—a digital tabaqat—to record the biographical information for Muslim scholars from different regions and periods. In addition, we discuss some of the implications of using digital tools for biographical inquiry. Creating a digital biographical database dramatically extends the horizons of scholarship. The use of digital tools provides historians unprecedented macroscopic views across time and place and makes it possible for them to pursue more complex questions and visualize their results in richer and more intuitive ways. Yet fascination with these new tools has its attendant dangers as well, including the potential to undermine conventional scholarship's emphasis on microstructures and the particularities of specific individuals, sources, periods, and regions.
Back Home?: The Return of Adnan and Halide Edib (Adivar) to Istanbul in December 1922
Authors: Okan Orçun Can
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: Adnan Bey and Halide Edib Hanım returned to Istanbul in December 1922 as two leading figures of the national struggle centered in Ankara. Drastic changes had taken place in Istanbul and the country at large since their escape from the city about three years prior. This article examines the couple's return to Istanbul in order to shed new light on what was essentially a moment of uncertainty for the Ankara government despite its victories on the battleground. With a focus on portrayals of the couple's return in the press, the article highlights the ongoing construction of an attachment/bond ( merbutiyet ) between the Ankara government and Istanbul in late 1922. Zooming in on this historical moment facilitates critical engagement with reductionist portrayals of the early 1920s in much of the officially sanctioned narratives on modern Turkey. This critical engagement fosters more nuanced interpretation of the events, figures, and processes which shaped the construction of new regimes in former Ottoman domains in the 1920s.
"We are the descendants of Güruh-ı naci": The notion of Güruh-ı naci in Alevism and Bektashism
Authors: Yüksel Emine
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: This article aims to analyze the myth of Güruh-ı naci and Şit in Alevi and Bektashi piety and its function on Alevi and Bektashi self-designation as "a saved community." The main theme of the myth is based on the idea that the Alevi and Bektashi do not descend from Adam and Eve, but from the heavenly houri Güruh-ı naci and Şit. Accordingly, they belong to a different lineage apart from Adam and Eve's progeny and constitute the seventy-third fırka (party) who will attain salvation. In this context, the study argues, primarily based on the oral accounts and a modern collection of Alevi and Bektashi poetry, that the myth does not appear as a meaningless combination of random stories but rather serves to engender Alevi and Bektashi self-understanding in connection with its mythical past. Additionally, it asserts that the notion supports the idea of Alevi and Bektashi being "the possessors of the light of Muhammad-Ali," "the true followers of the right path," and "the bearers of esoteric knowledge" against those they consider to be "others." Thus, it reaches a conclusion that the concept functions as a mechanism to justify the position of religious leaders of Alevi ocak s (lit. hearths, religious communities) as well as the Alevi and Bektashi perfection in religious terms and contributes to their ideas regarding salvation.
Gestión del conocimiento y la investigación cientifica en los cursos de Doctorado
Authors: Rolón Violeta , Cabrera César , Ruffinelli Rosa
Published: September 2023

La investigación tiene un diseño no experimental y descriptivo de corte transversal, y enfoque cuantitativo. El Objetivo General es: Analizar los efectos que tienen los factores de riesgo sobre el desarrollo bio-psico-social de los niños trabajadores de la calle en la ciudad de Asunción, durante el año 2013. La población trabajadora infantil en la ciudad de Asunción, durante el año 2011, según datos de la Secretaría de la Niñez y de la Adolescencia, creada por Ley 1680/01; se estimaba en aproximadamente 6.000 niños de ambos sexos. La muestra trabajada corresponde a 200 niños-as clasificados en 20 focos de aglomeración. Se concluye que los riesgos a los que están expuestos-as dañan el desarrollo bio-psico-social de niños-as trabajadores-as de la Calle en la Ciudad de Asunción.
Riesgos relacionados al usuario final
Authors: Monges Olmedo Mario Roberto
Published: September 2023

La participación del usuario final en los procesos de tecnologías de la información es clave ya que puede salvaguardar con políticas y reglas como poner en peligro la información directa o indirectamente. Es clave identificar esos riesgos que pueden ser relacionados al usuario final de manera a analizar el impacto de los mismos sobre los activos de la información. Una vez que se tiene este análisis se puede hacer una evaluación de riesgo de manera a poder incluir controles ya sea correctivo o preventivo a los procesos de las tecnologías de la información.
Determinación del Consumo de Agua vía el consumo eléctrico en los Sistemas de Agua Potable de la República del Paraguay
Authors: Gaona Alex , Díaz Víctor
Published: September 2023

La relación entre el agua y la electricidad se conoce hace mucho tiempo, solo que ahora el proceso es inverso, ya que no es mediante el agua de un río vemos produce energía eléctrica, sino que a través del consumo eléctrico se obtiene el consumo de agua en un determinado sistema de agua, conociendo la bomba que normalmente impulsa el agua (este dato es proveído por el ERSSAN). El ERSSAN (LEY GENERAL DEL MARCO REGULATORIO Y TARIFARIO DEL SERVICIO PUBLICO DE PROVISION DE AGUA POTABLE Y ALCANTARILLADO SANITARIO PARA LA REPUBLICA DEL PARAGUAY), tiene de acuerdo a la Ley 1614, que establece el “marco regulatorio y tarifario de la República del Paraguay”, la tarea de verificar la cantidad del consumo de agua de los sistemas de agua del Paraguay, como una de sus obligaciones principales. Ahora si el consumo eléctrico implica provisión de electricidad a otras necesidades de los sistemas de agua, puede introducir una distorsión al proceso de determinar el consumo de agua y se busca conocer ese factor de distorsión.
Calentamiento de una piscina de pequeña capacidad utilizando una bomba de calor
Authors: Martínez Laporta Gustavo , Scheneider Leopoldo , Nuñez Nelson
Published: September 2023

Durante muchos años, los sistemas de calefacción de piscinas se limitaron a los calentadores eléctricos, quemadores de gas o diésel. Estos sistemas eran grandes caros y tenían una eficiencia energética muy baja. Debido a este inconveniente se comenzaron n a introducir las bombas de calor, debido a su costo, eficiencia y bajo consumo de energía eléctrica. La elaboración de este trabajo consiste esencialmente en calcular y fabricar un intercambiador de calor para una piscina de pequeña capacidad que puedan ser utilizados principalmente en invierno donde las temperaturas son muy bajas. La idea de este proyecto es realizar un estudio comparativo del equipo importado utilizado en el mercado nacional, con otro elaborado y fabricado por el equipo de trabajo a fin de verificar el costo y beneficio a ser obtenido.
El uso del teléfono celular y su significación en estudiantes universitarios
Authors: Torres Garcete Antonia María
Published: September 2023

La tecnología, desempeña un papel activo en el desarrollo académico de los alumnos, por ende, cumple un rol importante en el proceso educativo. El presente artículo investiga cuál es el uso de los teléfonos celulares, y su significación, por parte de los estudiantes en el desarrollo del semestre del año 2017.1, en la Universidad Americana, de Asunción. Para ello se identifican los principales usos de los estudiantes le dan con respecto al teléfono celular, lo que constituye un factor importante para la correcta utilización del mismo.
Niveles comparativos de inteligencia emocional en alumnos de Psicología de la Facultad de Filosofía de Asunción – Paraguay
Authors: Ruíz Díaz Morales Daniela Catalina
Published: September 2023

La Inteligencia Emocional (I.E.) es la destreza que permite conocer y manejar sentimientos personales, interpretar y enfrentar los sentimientos de los demás, sentirse satisfechos, ser eficaces en la vida a la vez que crea hábitos mentales que favorecen a la productividad personal. La presente investigación, tuvo como Objetivo General: Comparar los niveles de inteligencia emocional de los alumnos del primer y tercer curso del ciclo básico de la Carrera de Psicología de la Universidad Nacional de Asunción inscriptos durante los años lectivos 2013, 2014 y 2015. Para el logro de los objetivos se utilizó el Cuestionario Estructurado elaborado por la investigadora en el marco de su tesis doctoral. El Diseño Metodológico fue no experimental, descriptivo, enfoque cuantitativo y de corte longitudinal. Los resultados obtenidos permitieron establecer que al comparar los tres años académicos, en los alumnos del primer curso, predominó notablemente la .I.E. Baja; y en los alumnos del tercer curso, estos niveles disminuyeron y aparecieron en grados casi similares la I.E. Media y la I.E. Moderadamente Alta; como así también, apareció un pequeño porcentaje de I.E. Alta. En la faja etaria de 27 a 36 años de alumnos inscriptos durante el año lectivo 2013, los niveles I.E. fluctuaron entre la I.E. Baja y Moderadamente Alta, lo cual se puede atribuir a la experiencia de vida y al desarrollo de las habilidades de la I.E. lograda de manera individual y no simplemente con la llegada de los años, o con el avance de los estudios universitarios.