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Prophetic Hadith and the Qur’ān-Only Movement: The Response of Muslim Scholars
Authors: Hamdeh Emad
Published: September 2023

Abstract: This article explores the Qur’ān-only movement, which advocates for the exclusive interpretation of Islam based on the Qur’ān without reference to the Prophetic Hadith. This movement emerged in the nineteenth century and represents a departure from traditional Islamic scholarship. To shed light on the complex intersection between religious tradition and modernity, this essay discusses the influence of modernity and Westernization on the development of Qur’ānist thought. It then provides a succinct overview of two primary contentions maintained by Muslim scholars who oppose the Qur’ānist movement. The first argument concerns the authority of ḥadīth, while the second concerns their authenticity and historical reliability. With regard to the former, traditional Muslim scholars underscore the significance of the Prophet’s life for deriving Islamic belief and practice from the Qur’ān, knowledge which can only be acquired from the Hadith. The second argument examined here involves the ways in which Islamic scholars defend the authenticity of the Prophetic Hadith with probabilistic reasoning, suggesting that rejecting the Hadith solely based on the absence of absolute certainty is not reasonable or consistent with the broader Islamic intellectual tradition. They argue that accepting something that is probable but not certain is common in many fields of study, including ḥadīth scholarship. In the science of ḥadīth ( ‘ilm al-ḥadīth ), scholars have developed what they consider to be sophisticated methods to evaluate the authenticity of ḥadīth reports based on various degrees of probability. Therefore, they advocate for an approach that acknowledges the role of probability in ḥadīth scholarship while upholding the rigorous standards of authenticity and reliability that have been developed over centuries of Islamic scholarship.
Beauty and the Patriarchy: Ibtisam Mara'ana's Lady Kul El-Arab (2008)
Authors: Harris Rachel S.
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: Leveraging the discourse of the Arab-Israeli conflict, Ibtisam Ma'arana uses the vehicle of the beauty pageant to consider the pressures on Arab and Druze women in Israeli society. In her documentary Lady Kul El-Arab (2008) she follows Druze Duah Fares as she participates in a small regional Arab contest and then competes in the national Miss Israel event. While the coverage of beauty competitions and the conventions of films and television programs about them have long considered the tension between female self-empowerment and exploitation, this film disrupts the usual narrative, instead drawing greater attention to nationalism and the identity politics which pageants signify. When Fares is forbidden to participate, Mara'ana shows how patriarchal structures employ modes of control and oppression, including threats of ostracization, violence and murder (under the guise of honor killings) to enforce women's submission. As a public and political figure, who has used her own positionality as a Palestinian woman and Israeli citizen to criticize both Israeli authorities and the treatment of women in Arab society, Mara'ana is implicated in the film. This connection is further cemented when she becomes the family's spokesperson three years after the release of the documentary when Fare's sister Jamila (known as Maya) is killed. This article explores the overlapping conflicts that emerge when a woman from a conservative society participates in a pageant and the particular situation of a Druze woman in Israel as depicted in Mara'ana's documentary.
Adjudication Instead of Strike Action: The Histadrut, the Post-Socialist Liberal Welfare State, and the Passing of the Israel Labor Court Law
Authors: Blum Shimon-Erez
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: The subject of this article is the public struggle over the establishment of the labor court system in Israel and the complex attitudes of the Histadrut, particularly in the 1960s. The conflict, I argue, was resolved in accordance with state policy and economic interests. At the time, the government's view of labor courts as a key mechanism in the settlement of prevalent collective disputes was shared by the political right and employers. This is consistent with another argument that the labor courts represented the government's policy of promoting a social-democratic welfare state model, affected by social-liberal thinking, or "post-socialist liberalism," as it was termed by Yehuda Sha'ari, one of the main promoters of the Labor Court Law. The resulting preference for adjudication over strike action engendered a powerful labor and social security mechanism.
Italian Catholics and the June 1967 War: A Turning Point
Authors: Palumbo Enrico
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: This article examines the debate in the Italian Catholic world which erupted during the Arab-Israeli war of June 1967. At the time, Italy was governed by the Christian Democrats, a Catholic-based party in a center-left coalition and the Italian electorate leaned heavily towards Israel, as newspapers, magazines and many politicians feared a possible resurgent genocide against the Jews. Only a few important but minority public figures took radically different positions: Foreign Minister Amintore Fanfani and, more moderately, Prime Minister Aldo Moro together with their allies in the party. After the end of the war, many Italian Catholics changed their minds: Israel no longer risked "a new holocaust," and the tragedy of the Palestinian people became obvious.
Mizrahi Jews as Viewed in the Yishuv: The Case of Hannah Helena Thon
Authors: Radai Itamar
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: Hannah Helena Thon (1886–1954) was born in Germany and settled in Palestine in the early 1920s. She was a pioneer social worker, an activist in women's organizations, a journalist, commentator, and lecturer. Thon's widely disseminated lectures and writings in the Hebrew press won her esteem and influence as an authority on the economic, social, and cultural characteristics of Mizrahi Jews. My analysis of her views is based on her archived articles and private papers, and sheds light on the perception of Mizrahi Jews among Ashkenazi Jews in the Yishuv and its effect the socialethnic gap.
Humor in the Time of Coronavirus: Pandemic and Expert Health Knowledge
Authors: Gabbert Lisa
Published: September 2023

Abstract: This article describes and classifies some of the memes, jokes, and other forms of humor that circulated on social media, blogs, and websites curated by health-care workers in the United States during the first six months of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. This humor emerged in direct response to the chaotic information environment, an environment in which rumor, gossip, conspiracy theory, bad health information, and legend thrived both within and outside of official institutions such as the White House and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). I argue that the humor shared among health-care professionals can be seen as a response to threats to their authority and expert knowledge that emerged in these forms during the pandemic; they also were a traditional means of temporarily asserting power by inverting unhappy realities in a context in which health-care workers felt they had little power and control and in which their own personal safety was at risk.
The Ferocious Medusa: The Petrifying, Apotropaic Gaze and Matrixial Vulva of Medusa, alongside Genital Display Figures
Authors: Alban Gillian M. E.
Published: September 2023

Abstract: This review of ten articles, books, and chapters on the mythic Medusa and genital display figures illustrates Medusa’s petrifying and apotropaic gaze and her engulfing vulva, or eye blazoning her matrixial force, as her severed head demonstrates her abiding pro-creative, indomitable force. Through a history of women held under scrutiny while feared by patriarchy, with men projecting their own fear of castration onto them, the Medusa figure emerges as stunningly uncastrated, asserting her force and returning her stony gaze in the reflexive action pivotal to this myth. Objectified under the male gaze, her vulva faces the viewer, her inspirational force born through the birth of Pegasus even as she is crushed in rape and death. The mythic Medusa and vulva display women persistently retain their hold on the male unconscious in rising above castigation, asserting their amazing procreative force over life and death, enabled through Medusa’s stunning tale and transfixing gaze.
Reclaiming Yoga as a Practice of Female Empowerment
Authors: Plancke Carine
Published: September 2023

Abstract: Womb yoga is a women’s yoga practice developed in the UK from the observation that male bodies and experiences are privileged in mainstream yoga. Based on modern postural yoga, womb yoga integrates the philosophy and mythology of śakta tantra in reference to scholarly texts and reinterprets tantric traditions in line with Anglo-American Goddess spirituality. Through body practice, chanting, visualization, and ritual, female cyclic experiences and the different stages of women’s lives are approached as gateways to the divine and as opportunities for spiritual empowerment. In addition, by offering a seasonal understanding of the menstrual cycle and establishing energetic resonances between natural elements and the body, womb yoga fosters experiences of cosmic connection and communion. The study is based on ethnographic research, combining participant observation and in-depth interviews. It details the practice of womb yoga and the experiences it engenders among participants, and discusses its feminist potential.
The Stories We Tell: Individual and Society in The Childhood of Jesus
Authors: Patton Paul
Published: September 2023

Abstract: Commentators have drawn attention to the close relationship between The Childhood of Jesus and Coetzee's exchanges with Arabella Kurtz in The Good Story . Read in the light of The Good Story's concern with the stories we tell ourselves about the lives we lead, our relationship to those stories and to their truth or falsity, the stories of Simón and David, their tensions and conflicts with one another and with the sometimes-incompatible stories told by the inhabitants of Novilla, exemplify the contemporary postmodern human condition. In particular, Childhood explores the consequences of what Coetzee calls a common postmodern situation in which someone is aware that a story is not true but nevertheless commits to it wholeheartedly. It shows how lives are changed by the commitment to a particular story and how they unfold as a result of the tensions that develop between individual and collective stories.
Purification Rituals in Joyce
Authors: Benjamin Roy
Published: September 2023

Abstract: In this study I examine Joyce's complex and often contradictory relationship to purification rituals. On the one hand, he rebelled against such rituals insofar as they equated sexuality with defilement and virginity with purity. On the other, as Beckett pointed out, there is a continual purgatorial process at work throughout the Wake, often involving the purgation of the sin of pride. Joyce also exploited the ambiguity of such substances as blood that alternately defile and purify. In addition, he alludes to many rituals in which those who were supposed to be protected and purified become victimized and defiled.
I, Ahasuerus: Monsieur Chouchani in Israel, 1952–56
Authors: Mintzker Yair
Published: September 2023

Abstract: In October 1952, a mysterious man boarded a ship sailing from Marseille to Haifa. In the previous several years he had been living in France, where he was known as "Monsieur Chouchani" and taught Talmud to Elie Wiesel and Emmanuel Levinas, among others. Once in Israel, he went by the name "Ben Shoushan." In neither country did anyone know his true identity, but all who met him were astounded: Chouchani/Ben Shoushan appeared practically omniscient, he spoke an astonishing number of languages, and he gave the impression of someone who had come from a different time in history. In this article, I reconstruct Monsieur Chouchani/Ben Shoushan's time in Israel between 1952–56. I claim that in order to understand his story fully, one needs to read it against three contexts: Israeli history of the early 1950s, the biographies of the people Chouchani/Ben Shoushan attracted, and the ancient legend of Ahasuerus, the Wandering Jew.
The Oufran "Letters of Tzaddikim Burials": Cross-Translations between Charms, Epitaphs, and Historiography
Authors: Ouaknine-Yekutieli Orit
Published: September 2023

Abstract: In this article, I focus on two themes connected to the Jewish community of the southern Moroccan town of Oufran and its place within conceptions of Moroccan Jewishness and Jewish Moroccanness. The first theme is the story of Oufran's burned martyrs— ha-nisrafim in Hebrew—and the second, the topos of this community's antiquity. I analyze the intertextual creation, circulation, evolution, and use of the stories of Oufran by Jews, Muslims, and French-Christian colonial agents and discuss how these stories derive from and have sustained Judeo-Muslim imaginings and shared experiences. I also claim that Oufran's story and history are deeply affected by "translations" between different realms of knowledge.
"ICI, PERSONNE N'EST D'ICI" (NOBODY HERE IS FROM HERE). DIASPORA IN SENEGAL
Authors: Rudolf Markus
Published: September 2023

Abstract: The concept of diaspora can offer a new perspective on processes of integration and exclusion inside a nation. The concept helps to analyze internal displacement and national migration. Observations on the Diola in Senegal show how mechanisms of identification are contextually determined. Interviews in Dakar reveal that the status of internal immigrants from the Casamance can be understood better if they are regarded as a diaspora. At the same time the Diola diaspora located in trans-border regions features more integrative characteristics than are found in Dakar. The comparative analysis of diaspora facilitates an understanding of the relative importance actors attribute to different identifications. This approach helps to answer the question whether, where, and why local or national components of individual identifications are prioritized. The case study of instances where nation-building fails to integrate its subjects also points to difficulties of the current "nation state" model in general. Le concept de diaspora nous offre une nouvelle perspective d'analyse quant au processus d'intégration ou d'exclusion à l'intérieur même d'un pays. Ce concept nous aide à appréhender les migrations nationales et les déplacements à l'intérieur d'un pays. L'étude des Diolas au Sénégal nous montre la façon dont les mécanismes d'identification sont déterminés par le contexte. Des entretiens à Dakar montrent que le statut des immigrants de Casamance peut être compris de façon plus complète si l'on considère leur migration comme une diaspora. En même temps, les Diolas en diaspora installés dans des régions frontalières présentent des caractéristiques d'intégration plus grandes qu'à Dakar. L'analyse comparative des diasporas facilite la compréhension de l'importance relative que les divers acteurs accordant aux différents modes d'identification. Cette approche aide à répondre à la question de savoir pourquoi, ou et comment les éléments locaux et internationaux des modes d'indentification individuels sont choisis et hiérarchisés. Cette étude développe aussi des exemples dans lesquels le processus de construction de la nation échoue à intégrer des individus et met ainsi en évidence, de manière générale, les difficultés du modèle de l'Etat-Nation.
DEVELOPMENT STUDIES IN THE MANDE REGION: THE LAST 20 YEARS
Authors: Koenig Dolores
Published: September 2023

Abstract: This article discusses major trends within development studies in the Mande region over the last twenty years. The paper examines some of the important theoretical approaches to development and the institutional context in which the work is carried out. The following themes are highlighted: agriculture, economics, and ecology; health and population; anti-poverty initiatives; involuntary resettlement; democratization and decentralization; and urban development. The focus is on the work of practitioners, especially those from Mali, who have designed, implemented or evaluated policies, projects and programs of directed social change. The article also looks at analyses and critiques of the development system. Many Mande-zone scholars still face limited funding and opportunities for international publication. More efforts should be made to increase the effectiveness and visibility of the work of African scholar-practitioners. Broader visibility, including publication, could render development studies in the Mande zone more effective by enabling them to make a greater contribution to development theory. L'article porte sur les tendances majeures des études de développement dans les régions mande depuis vingt ans. Il analyse certaines approches théoriques et le contexte institutionnel dans lequel les études sont menés. Certains thèmes sont mis en avant : agriculture, économie et écologie; santé et population; initiatives anti-pauvreté; politiques de déplacement; démocratisation et décentralisation; et développement urbain. L'accent est mis sur le travail des praticiens, notamment ceux du Mali, qui ont conçu, mis en pratique et évalué des projets et programmes qui visent un changement social. L'article aborde aussi les analyses qui en sont faites et leur critique. Beaucoup de chercheurs de la zone mande n'ont que peu de moyens financiers ou d'opportunités pour diffuser internationalement leur travail. Plus d'efforts devraient être fait pour assurer la visibilité des travaux des Africains, chercheurs tout comme praticiens. Ceci permettrait aux études de développment dans la zone mande de contribuer plus efficacement à la théorie du développement.
Political Readings of the Hagar Narratives in Poems By Jewish Women
Authors: Ofer Rachel
Published: September 2023

Abstract: The biblical story of Hagar, Sarah’s Egyptian maidservant, whom she gave to her husband, Abraham, as a concubine, appears in the Book of Genesis, Chapters 16 and 20. This article discusses poems written by modern Jewish women poets that use the Hagar narrative to comment on the conflict between the Jews, the descendants of Sarah, and the Arabs, the descendants of Hagar. Two themes are prominent: The conflict between Sarah and Hagar, and their common motherhood. Through these themes, which are both manifest in the biblical story, the poets give expression to their own worldviews regarding the ethnic tensions between Jews and Arabs. Some of the poems discussed here conceive of the Hagar narrative as symbolizing the root of the unending conflict between Arabs and Jews. They are interested in rectifying the historical injustice that began, as it were, when Sarah banished her Egyptian maidservant Hagar to the wilderness with her son Ishmael. Other poems offer a gentler understanding of Hagar, seeking to understand and empathize with her through a common femininity/maternity and in this way to overcome the political implications of the story. These themes stand in contrast with the midrashic tradition that sees Ishmael as a symbol of the enemy and Hagar as the symbolic mother of the enemy. A third group of poems uses the Hagar story to reflect on the dynamic between Arabs and Jews, moving between violence and eroticism. This article will discuss poems by Dahlia Ravikovitch, Zerubavela Sasonkin, Nava Semel, Bracha Serri, Shirley Kaufman, Lynn Gottlieb, Lally Alexander, Hava Pinhas-Cohen and Rivka Miriam.
Including the Epistemic in Democratic Music Pedagogy
Authors: MacLean Tessa
Published: September 2023

Abstract: Philosophical descriptions of democratic music education frequently rely on “inclusion” and “participation” as the defining features of democratically oriented music programs. Democratic epistemic considerations, such as regulatory ideals of musical quality and excellence, however, are less commonly cited, if not actively avoided. This paper addresses several primary reasons for the paucity of epistemic considerations in democratic music education and problematizes current concerns about epistemic judgements from a democratic perspective. Drawing on Miranda Fricker’s influential concept of epistemic injustice, this paper argues that democratic dialogue that respects values of diversity and inclusion cannot legitimately ignore epistemic dimensions because doing so occludes the epistemic dimensions of cultural, racial, and gender diversity in music education classrooms.
Queer Futurity and Afrofuturism: Enacting Emancipatory Utopias in Music Education
Authors: Talbot Brent C. , Taylor Donald M.
Published: September 2023

Abstract: Inspired by the life and works of GrammyAward® winning artist, Lil Nas X, we explore ways a young Black queer musician has enacted emancipatory utopias to disrupt dominant cultural modes of being—offering unapologetic expressions and expansions of race, gender, and sexual identity. In this paper, we draw upon José Esteban Muñoz and Ytasha Womak to consider how utopian thinking through the lenses of queer futurity and Afrofuturism provides a way to dismantle the hegemonic and proleptic trappings of music education and contemplate how music learners and teachers might enact emancipatory utopias relevant to their own historically lived experiences.
Imagining the Hebrew Ode: On Robert Lowth’s Biblical Species
Authors: Raz Yosefa
Published: September 2023

Abstract: The subject of this article is the reception history of biblical genres, or the metapoetics of genre-making. It argues that the seemingly fixed presentations of the genres of biblical poetry in the twentieth century—as in Robert Alter’s classic guide to biblical Hebrew poetry—emerge from an eighteenth-century encounter: the English exegete Robert Lowth’s dramatic attempt to fit Greek and Roman generic models to the Hebrew text. Lowth’s resulting genres, or what he called the “species” of biblical poetry, were shaped both by the parallels he discovered between classical and Hebrew traditions, and by the small and large aberrations he faced in his process of translation. The article focuses on the characterization of a poetic form that never existed: the ancient Hebrew ode. Although, in this case, Lowth fails in his biblical scholarship, his Hebrew ode demonstrates the spirit of his creative project. By fitting Hebrew poetry to neoclassical models, Lowth subtly transformed neoclassical categories and possibilities, opening up new imaginative expanses within the lyrical mode and preparing the way for a more flexible, complex, and emotionally sophisticated Romantic lyric.
Nation, Voice, and Character in “the Great Zambian Novel”: A Critical Reading of The Old Drift
Authors: Crehan Stewart
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: Combining the objective voice of an omniscient narrator and the ironic “we” of a mosquito chorus, mixing “writerly” and “readerly” elements, The Old Drift (2019) adapts the family saga to a modern genealogical narrative of Zambia as a rainbow nation. A return to and settlement in an African “home” contrast thematically with the migratory, “Afropolitan” fiction of other African writers in the diaspora. Set largely in the capital city, as in recent novels by other Zambian women writers, the novel endorses a radical urban space. Yet its compacted, multilayered, subtle, allusive, and elliptical style, its copious range of characters and frequent shifts of place and time serendipitously woven into an intricate plot, come at a price. In Jamesonian terms, the “waning of affect” and postmodern “depthlessness” treat historical events as mediated simulations; they silence characters whose lack of inner life prevents empathy, prioritizes images and surfaces over internal feelings, and implicitly rejects the binarism of inner and outer. Thus revolution is a game played by a privileged few, since the struggle of the masses to overthrow an oppressive system is an unusable cliché.
South-South Triangulations: Fabric, Marriage, and Decolonization in Latifa al-Zayyat’s The Open Door and Leila Aboulela’s Lyrics Alley
Authors: Ayad Nada
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: Heeding Arabic literary scholar Waïl Hassan’s call for literary comparatist work that does not center the United States or Europe, in this article, I investigate two novels of the Global South set in the same political moment of decolonization. Examining the Egyptian writer Latifa al-Zayyat’s The Open Door (1960) and the Sudanese writer Leila Aboulela’s novel Lyrics Alley (2010), I study the significance of women’s sartorial choices, what these sartorial choices symbolize within the central marriage plots, and what both reveal about the charged political fabric in the country in which each text is set—the early years of the 1950s in which Egypt gained independence from British colonial rule but before Sudan’s independence from Anglo-Egyptian co-rule. I contend that Al-Zayyat’s work invites a dynamism to women’s writing history and reveals an indigenous epistemology, while Aboulela’s novel centers the quotidian only to uphold colonial supremacy.
Kanun and Kanunname in Ottoman Historiography
Authors: Darling Linda T.
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: Ottoman kanun plays an important role in shaping perceptions of the Ottoman state, the sultan's authority, and the empire's unique combination of Islam and secularity. Much ink has been spilled on the subject of kanun, but there is still considerable confusion in the scholarship. This article provides a roadmap through publications on kanun and kanunnames and identifies problems in the literature and turning points in the scholarship. It focuses on the two main types of general kanunnames: ceremonial codes governing the administrative elite, and general taxation codes with sections on crimes. It aims to clarify which kanunnames were published by whom, analyze trends in the scholarship, trace lines of development, identify additional problems and new areas for further inquiry, and pursue studies of kanun through the most recent quarter century.
Journals of the Plague Year: The Ottoman Press and the Istanbul Cholera Outbreak of 1871
Authors: Blackthorne-O'Barr Erik
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: The outbreak of cholera in Istanbul in the autumn of 1871 has long been considered something of a historical non-event. Although responsible for several thousand deaths, in the historiography of the city it remains almost entirely obscured. Yet the 1871 outbreak briefly highlighted the social tensions in the burgeoning Istanbulite public sphere, and threatened to fracture the formerly "unified" Istanbulite medical establishment along spatial, colonial, and racialized lines. This article examines the reportage of four newspapers which circulated in Istanbul during the outbreak, each of which claimed to speak for a generalized public, albeit through very different methods. Three of these newspapers—the English-language The Levant Herald , the French-language La Turquie , and the Ottoman Turkish Basiret —were dailies with circulations in the thousands. The fourth paper, the French-language Gazette Médicale d'Orient , was instead the press organ of the city's emergent sanitary establishment. The responses of these papers to this sudden crisis revealed the underlying assumptions which animated Istanbulite social and medical discourse in the late Ottoman Empire, and the tensions inherent in claims to speak for public opinion or to act on behalf of global public health.
"We Do Not Want Spies Anymore": The Abolition of Spying after the Young Turk Revolution
Authors: Akıncı Arda
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: One of the first measures taken by the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), after assuming power in 1908, was to abolish spying. This has been mostly treated as a simple outcome of the change of power. However, this article offers a different perspective on the abolition of spying in 1908 and the subsequent exile of the spies in 1909. This study focuses on the abolition of spying in the Ottoman Empire as a significant idea shaped since the earlier years of the Young Turks' opposition to the rule of Abdülhamid II and followed strictly as a policy after they assumed power. Rather than treating abolition of spying and the exile of spies as a byproduct of the 1908 Revolution, this study takes it as one of the pillars of the Young Turks' ideological discourse and a central policy of the CUP. The article maintains a thread from the origins of Young Turk aversion to spying to the exile of the spies in 1909 following the 31 March Incident. This research aims to contribute to the social history of the late Ottoman historiography by placing the abolition of spying into a larger context together with its agents– the spies.
Catching the Invisible: Translating Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign: A Book of Appreciations
Authors: Colomba Caterina
Published: September 2023

Abstract: This brief article concentrates on my personal experience in translating Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign: A Book of Appreciations (1897) into Italian. It provides a reflection on the role of the translator as a privileged reader, as the one able to access more easily, to use Raymond Williams’s words, the structure of feeling, a narrative which is not fully articulated on the page but is to be inferred by reading between the lines. It intends to show how WNQVR reveals, to a close reader, new formations of women’s thought struggling to emerge out of the dominant Victorian discourse while discussing the translation strategies which have been adopted, bearing in mind not only cultural and linguistic differences but also the historical distance that separates us from the original text.
BESS Friends: Mid-Range Reading Race, Ethnicity, and Empire in Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign
Authors: Sy Lloyd Alimboyao
Published: September 2023

Abstract: This article explains a method of analysis called mid-range reading and applies it to the biographies of Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign ( WNQVR ). Mid-range reading draws conclusions about texts by using both data about those texts and close readings of the texts themselves. The data in particular is itself based on human perusals of WNQVR : narratological annotations applied to the biographies, drawing from a schematic system of keywords called BESS. The article shows how these annotations reveal discourses about race, empire, and ethnicity in WNQVR . It suggests that midrange reading can be used to find structural coherences in a book composed of disparate authors and subjects; in this case, it leads us to quantified patterns that represent Victorian racial politics.
Comportamiento Organizacional del Departamento de Atención al cliente en la Universidad Privada del Este
Authors: Escobar Díaz Jorge Marcelo
Published: September 2023

El comportamiento organizacional, “es un campo de estudio que investiga el impacto de los individuos, grupos y estructuras sobre el comportamiento dentro de las organizaciones, con el propósito de aplicar los conocimientos adquiridos en la mejora de la eficacia de una organización”. Entre los factores más importantes se cuentan, las características del servicio, la habilidad de la empresa para responder a las preguntas y necesidades de los consumidores y las garantías que se adjuntan con el servicio. La presente investigación tiene como Objetivos: Describir la gestión del recurso humano como apoyo al cambio estratégico y Proponer estrategias para mejorar la calidad y la productividad de los departamentos concurrentes a atención al alumnado. El diseño de investigación es no experimental, descriptivo, de corte transversal y enfoque mixto. Se utilizó la encuesta como técnica de recolección de datos. La muestra seleccionada fue de 76 funcionarios del equipo de Atención al cliente. El tipo de muestreo fue probabilístico ya que toda la población tuvo la misma posibilidad de ser encuestada. Los resultados obtenidos demuestran que la gran mayoría no se siente identificada ni desarrolla compromiso con la Institución. Aunque el 49 % refleja que si tiene fe en ella; que del liderazgo y del compañerismo dependen generar un buen clima organizacional, y así aumentar el compromiso, bajando el nivel de estrés. Además se refleja el inconformismo salarial, que actúa como factor desmotivador a la hora de “ponerse la camiseta”
Las políticas públicas – educativas y desarrollo social
Authors: Comet Weiler Cornelio
Published: September 2023

Las políticas públicas, como bien se lo define, se orientan a realizar objetivos considerados de valor para la sociedad o a resolver problemas cuya solución es de interés o beneficio público. En este artículo de revisión se pretende realizar un breve análisis de las políticas públicas específicamente las educativas, con el fin de situar a las mismas desde el punto de vista de las prioridades socioeconómicas, determinando las contribuciones que las políticas públicas bien implementadas tienen como resultado en el desarrollo.
Implementación de tecnología en el currículum académico para la dinámica de la estrategia de enseñanza-aprendizaje en la facultad de derecho de la Universidad Americana de la ciudad de Asunción
Authors: Riego Esteche Andrea Paola
Published: September 2023

La investigación se centra en implementar la tecnología en el currículum académico para la dinámica de la estrategia de enseñanza-aprendizaje en la facultad de derecho de la Universidad Americana de la ciudad de Asunción. El objetivo trazado en la investigación plantea analizar los componentes de la tecnología implementada como mecanismo de estrategia de enseñanza - aprendizaje en la carrera de derecho de la Universidad Americana de Asunción. El enfoque correspondió a cuantitativo porque se realizaron cuestionarios a docentes y alumnos, la recolección de datos se basó en una medición numérica y se realizó un análisis estadístico de los mismos. La investigación se enmarcó en un diseño no experimental, dado que los estudios se realizaron sin la manipulación deliberada de variables y los fenómenos se han observado en su ambiente natural, para después analizarlos. La profundidad de la tesis fue descriptiva porque se describió las características de lo que se investigó en el campo de estudio que ha sido la facultad de derecho de la Universidad Americana de la ciudad de Asunción. El tipo de investigación correspondió al corte transeccional o transversal porque se recolectaron los datos en un solo momento, en un tiempo único. Se recolectaron los datos necesarios por medio de cuestionarios a docentes y alumnos. La metodología utilizada en las encuestas realizadas a docentes y alumnos de la carrera de derecho de la universidad confirmaron la utilización de las Nuevas Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación, (NTIC) como mecanismo de estrategia de enseñanza aprendizaje, como la tecnología avanza de una manera notable y evidente, las universidades deben permanecer en esta tendencia, son un nuevo instrumento de trabajo y ofrece la posibilidad de intercambio de información entre docentes y alumnos de diferentes áreas, el cual resulta muy necesario para la actividad docente. Los efectos que conlleva el uso de la implementación de la tecnología en el proceso de enseñanza- aprendizaje de la carrera de derecho, afirma que el uso de la tecnología logra un mejor entendimiento y motiva al estudiante a una mayor participación en clases permitiendo así comparar estudios de casos.
Factores que influyen en la inclusión de personas con discapacidad física motriz del área metropolitana de asunción, en la educación superior, modalidad virtual
Authors: Mendoza Testi Sara Beatriz
Published: September 2023

Esta investigación analiza la inclusión universitaria de personas con discapacidad física motriz, considerando el bajo índice de las que finalizan los estudios universitarios. Considerando el contexto de las personas con discapacidad física motriz, ya sea a causa de accidentes o que la misma se haya dado desde el nacimiento, se analiza el ámbito de la Educción Superior y las características de la misma. Es sabido que las personas con discapacidad no tienen las mismas posibilidades, sobre todo teniendo en cuenta los accesos al entorno educativo, lo mismo sucede en el entorno laboral y más aún cuando va en aumento la edad. Estos datos se registran en informes de la UNESCO, OIT, OMS y otros organizamos mundiales que operan en el ámbito de la Salud, la Educación y el Trabajo. Para la comprensión del alcance y causas de la situación, se realizó una investigación de campo, con metodología y enfoque cualitativo, a través de la aplicación de cuestionarios, entrevistas y entrevistas semiestructuradas a universidades que ofrecen educación virtual, como así también a directivos, representantes, docentes y personas con discapacidad física motriz relacionadas a la educación superior. Durante el desarrollo del trabajo se analizaron factores influyentes en la Educación virtual para la inclusión universitaria de personas con discapacidad física motriz del área metropolitana de Asunción. En el análisis de los resultados, se verificó que los principales impedimentos que dificultan la inclusión y la persistencia de las personas con discapacidad en la universidades, son de tipo arquitectónico, comunicacional, pedagógico y actitudinal. En base a estos resultados, se indican acciones para revertir esta situación.
Masculinización de la enfermeria
Authors: Ruffinelli Rosa , Hermosilla Miguela
Published: September 2023

El objetivo de esta investigación es la revisión estadística hacia la masculinización de la profesión en el transcurso de los años y su proyección a futuro en la carrera de Enfermería / IAB-UNA, considerando que a lo largo de la historia la formación en la casa de estudios ha sido eminentemente femenina, observado a partir de los años 2000 al 2015. Se realizó una revisión a partir de las estadísticas de egreso de estudiantes de la carrera de enfermería del IAB/UNA de los últimos 15 años de formación, a fin de identificar la formación profesional masculina en el tiempo, y su posible comportamiento a través del tiempo por medio de una proyección. La misma nos revela que la tendencia no es hacia la masculinización de los egresados en enfermeria ya que estadisticamente no se evidencia mayor participación de hombres en la profesión, se observa un comportamiento muy irregular en la proporción de varones a través del tiempo, a la carrera siempre se la ve como una profesión netamente femenina y pareciera que el comportamiento seguirá siendo el mismo, pese a los cambios a nivel mundial.
Competencias específicas de psicología del Proyecto Tuning américa latina en la carrera de psicología de la universidad americana.
Authors: Pertile de Aranda Sandra
Published: September 2023

Las competencias específicas de Psicología establecidas por el Proyecto Tuning América Latina y su presencia en la carrera de Psicología de la Universidad Americana fue el análisis de estudio de esta investigación. Se desarrolló un estudio No-experimental, de corte trasversal que arrojo datos cuantitativos, de alcance descriptivo-comparativo. La muestra fue No probabilística y estuvo compuesta por un total de 123, Alumnos, Egresados y Docentes de la carrera. Se procedió a la realización de una encuesta, con el objeto de identificar el grado de importancia y el nivel desarrollado de dichas competencias en la carrera para posteriormente comparar los resultados, a través de análisis estadísticos de distribución de frecuencia, moda y media aritmética. Los resultados indicaron que los promedios para todas las competencias fueron altos, en grado de importancia, para todos los encuestados. Sin embargo se observó discrepancias entre los promedios de logro, siendo el logro alcanzado inferior al grado de importancia de las competencias analizadas.
La estrategia de soft power de la república popular china
Authors: Díaz Guadalupe María
Published: September 2023

La teoría del soft power o poder blando ha estado presente en el discurso político internacional desde que fue introducido por el académico estadounidense Joseph S. Nye en la década de 1990. Desde entonces, ha sido adoptado por muchos gobiernos como una importante herramienta de poder, distinguiéndose de enfoques más coercitivos. Recientemente, el soft power se convirtió en parte de la estrategia y del discurso oficial de la República Popular China. El presente trabajo busca responder por qué China ha incorporado la teoría del soft power a su narrativa oficial, las diferencias existentes en su ejercicio del soft power con la teoría propuesta por el Prof. Joseph S. Nye, sus fuentes, manifestaciones y sus limitaciones. Primeramente, este trabajo aportará las definiciones y características de la teoría del soft power. Posteriormente, el presente artículo analizará a los autores más relevantes del tema, y contrastará de una manera cualitativa-descriptiva a través del análisis de la bibliografía especializada las diferentes posturas y evaluaciones elaboradas sobre la estrategia de soft power de la República Popular China, concluyendo que a pesar del énfasis puesto en el desarrollo de su soft power, éste se encuentra en sus etapas iniciales y aún no provee los resultados esperados. El trabajo puede estar limitado por la falta de más bibliografía de autores asiáticos más allá de los citados en la bibliografía seleccionada, debido a la barrera idiomática. Este trabajo no efectúa juicios de valor éticos ni predicciones sobre el tema descripto.
La planificación estratégica como base para el éxito de empresas familiares en Paraguay
Authors: Dávalos Segovia María de la Paz , Ramírez Granada Oscar José Ramón
Published: September 2023

La presente investigación cualitativa conlleva la intención de relacionar las complicaciones que afrontan las empresas familiares y PYMES en Paraguay en términos de trascendencia generacional con la Planificación Estratégica, el proceso administrativo que atiende esta problemática en particular. En la economía paraguaya, el 85% de las empresas son familiares y el 65% de los bienes y servicios del país provienen de estas, sin embargo solo 1% del total de empresas familiares transitan a la cuarta generación. La planificación estratégica implica establecer el rumbo de la organización. Es un proceso continuo de recopilación y análisis de información presente, tanto interna como externa, sobre el cual se fundan las decisiones organizacionales, de manera a concebir con la mayor precisión posible el futuro de ellas. El diseño de investigación es sistemático, no experimental, descriptivo, y estudio de caso. Se utilizó la investigación documental bibliográfica como fuente de recolección de datos. Los resultados indican que una efectiva gestión de las estrategias le otorga a la empresa una mayor facilidad de adaptación a cambios organizacionales internos y externos, lo que permite su trascendencia generacional. La Planificación Estratégica se constituye como un proceso base para el éxito de las empresas familiares.
Capacitación docente y la gestión en el aula
Authors: Ortiz de Morinigo Celsa Beatriz , Balletbo Fernández Idalgo
Published: September 2023

El objetivo principal de esta investigación fue determinar los resultados de las capacitaciones en la gestión educativa en el aula de los docentes de Educación Media y se lleva a cabo en los colegios: Colegio Nacional Dr. Víctor Natalicio Vasconsellos y el Colegio Diocesano Misionero de la ciudad de San Juan Bautista (Misiones – Paraguay). La investigación fue de carácter descriptivo pues analizó las características, las condiciones y los resultados de la capacitación docente en la gestión educativa en el aula en la Educación Media. Tuvo un enfoque cuali-cuantitativo en el tratamiento de los datos y en la utilización del total de los componentes de la población seleccionada considerando que los resultados fueron generalizados para otras instituciones. Entre los resultados obtenidos se destaca que las capacitaciones en la gestión educativa de los docentes de Educación Media de los Colegios Nacional Dr. Víctor Natalicio Vasconsellos y el Colegio Diocesano Misionero, según los directivos promueven la reflexión, el intercambio y el trabajo en equipo.
Preferencias de estilos de aprendizaje de los estudiantes universitarios de diferentes
Authors: Galeano López Romina Lorena
Published: September 2023

Se trata de una investigación con enfoque mixto de tipo no experimental, de alcance comparativo con un diseño de corte transversal; tuvo por objetivo analizar las preferencias de los estilos de aprendizaje de los estudiantes universitarios de diferentes carreras de una Universidad de Asunción.
Servicios brindados por el Departamento de Personas en cuatro empresas de Gran Asunción
Authors: Pitaud Henri , Cassanello José , González Óscar , Martínez Alejandro , Pertile Sandra
Published: September 2023

Esta investigación es un estudio realizado en el marco del área de Gestión del Talento Humano, donde se pretende investigar que funciones o servicios brindan las áreas de gestión de personas en ciertas empresas situadas en gran Asunción, Paraguay. La metodología de trabajo consiste en un enfoque cuantitativo de los datos, con un diseño No experimental de corte trasversal y de alcance descriptivo. La muestra está compuesta por cuatro (4) representantes máximos de los departamentos de gestión de personas de cuatro (4) empresas de gran de Asunción, Paraguay, de ventas comerciales; con un muestreo No probabilístico, dirigido e intencional de cuatro (4) encargados del área de personas, a los cuales se le aplico un cuestionario con veinte (20) preguntas cerradas acerca de la posición jerárquica del área y los servicios que ofrece.
Utilización de simuladores educativos en el proceso de formación universitaria en la modalidad virtual, en el area metropolitana de asunción
Authors: Mendoza Sara
Published: September 2023

Esta investigación analiza la utilización de simuladores educativos en el proceso de formación universitaria, considerando la importancia del desarrollo de prácticas durante el proceso educativo. Teniendo en cuenta el contexto de los jóvenes que se encuentra en formación universitaria en la modalidad virtual, se analiza la forma de desarrollo de los contenidos prácticos, teniendo en cuenta que en esta modalidad, los alumnos no asisten a clases, sino que realizan el cursado utilizando plataformas virtuales de aprendizaje; por lo que determinadas técnicas de aprendizaje, que si bien son utilizadas, suelen resultar más efectivas en la modalidad presencial. Los contenidos desarrollados en la modalidad virtual, son los mismos contenidos desarrollados en la modalidad presencial, en cuanto a lo que refiere al programa de estudio. Es posible identificar una notable disparidad específicamente al momento de hacer referencia de la forma de desarrollo de contenidos prácticos.
Enfoque Social en el Diseño Urbano y su implicancia para Latinoamerica
Authors: Ruiz Diaz Paola Arias
Published: September 2023

El artículo plantea que el diseño urbano puede mejorar el comportamiento humano al proporcionar espacios públicos de alta calidad. El marco teórico utilizado para sustentar esta afirmación comprende las siguientes teorías: Nuevo Urbanismo, Urbanismo Social, Teoría de la escala humana de Gehl y la Teoría de Capital Social; las cuales comparten la ideología de que el diseño urbano es un medio para un fin superior, que es la cohesión social. En primer lugar, haremos una breve descripción de la performance del Diseño Urbano en las últimas décadas para desentrañar qué éxitos y fracasos nos han llevado a desarrollar nuestra perspectiva actual hacia la ciudad y luego analizaremos la problemática urbana latinoamericana, para concluir con sugerencias sobre la metodología apropiada para encararla.