bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Role of Apparels in Burns due to Domestic Violence – A tool for assessing Degree of Burns
Authors: Buzdar Zulfiqar Ali , Khan Mubarak Mehmood Ahmad
Published: January 2023

Background: Human life is subject to certain environmental, cultural and ethnic origin factors. Based upon the above facts loose and tight variety of clothing/apparel are commonly used. Fire and flames are an integral part of human life on the other hand and accidents do occur in natural course of history. In such accidents type of apparel one might be wearing play a great role in degree or severity of burns. Association and assessments need to be established in this regard. Methods: The study has been conducted on 250 cases of dry flame burns in AED of Mayo Hospital Lahore/Medicolegal Clinic of King Edward Medical University Lahore for a period of nine months in 2017-18. The population of 250 cases were selected through convenient non-probability purposive sampling technique. The study descriptive cross-sectional study design was applied to the above population selected for the study. Results: Our study revealed1.6% females were involved more than males in the burn incident during the period of study. A wide majority up to 70% used Shalwar and Kameez of loose wearable category as per culture of the country in comparison to the relatively tight clothing of Trousers and Pantaloons variety. A grossly significant role has been established with a p value of 0.024 that loose variety of apparel are responsible for causing greater degree of damage in burns as compared to that of tight variety of apparel worn at the time of incidence. Conclusion: The study concludes that wearing relatively short apparels or of tight i.e. Trousers and Pantaloons variety can be safe, protective and a healthy habit during cooking, working in fire burning vicinity like that of industry, hotels, restaurants and winter outdoor activities. The loose variety hereafter referred as Shalwarand Kameezvariety of cultural apparels can be dangerous and even life threatening when it involves higher percentages of burns. Keywords: Burns, Apparel, Clothing, Degree of Burns
Methylprednisolone for Prevention of Seroma Formation after Mastectomy
Authors: Shiraz Danyal Anwar , Qazi Maham , Sabir Irum , Jameel M Khurram , Aqeel Ch. Muhammad , Muneer Mah
Published: January 2023

Background: Breast cancer is the most common cause of death in middle aged women. Seroma formation is claimed to be a very common problem after axillary dissection in patients with breast cancer. Aim: To conduct this study to see if injecting methyl prednisolone can improve the post-operative outcomes of modified radical mastectomy in terms of seroma formation Methods: This Study design is a randomized control trial, done at Surgical Department, Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar from October 12th 2019 till April 12th 2020. Randomization was done through lottery method. Sample size was 38 in each group. All the data was analyzed in SPSS (version 22). Mean + SD was calculated for continuous var-iables like age, BMI and volume of seroma. Frequency and percentages were calculated for categorical variables like stage of breast cancer, whether neoadjuvant chemotherapy was received andefficacy. Efficacy in both groups was compared using chi square test keeping p value of <0.05 as significant. Result: Mean age in Group A was 38±12.72 years whereas in Group B was 40±11.83 years. Efficacy of both the groups was analyzed as Group A ( Methyl prednisolone) was effective in 76% patients in preventing seroma for-mation. Normal Saline injection in Group B was effective in preventing seroma formation in 53% patients. Methylprednisolone being statistically significant in prevention of seroma formation with a p value of 0.03. Conclusion: Our study concludes that local methyl prednisolone is more effective than normal saline injection in preventing seroma formation after modified radical mastectomy for carcinoma breast. Clinical Implications: This study will not only add to the national and international literature that is available on the topic but would also help us in modifying in treatment guidelines if proven efficacious in order to improve patient management. Keywords: Breast Cancer, Methylprednicolone, modified radical mastectomy, seroma, normal saline
Effects of Exer–Gaming on Balance and Gait in Parkinson’s Patients
Authors: Qayyum Shahbaz , Hashmi Zeest , Waqas Shoaib , Tariq Muhammad , Mughal Muhammad Waqas , Tanvir Mohsin
Published: January 2023

Background: Parkinson’s disease is the most progressive disorder of the nervous system. The four major features of Parkinson’s disease are tremors at rest, rigidity, hypokinesia, and postural instability. Aim: To evaluate outcomes of virtual based games in patients suffering from Parkinson disease and their effects on balance and gait training. Methodology: It was a 6-month randomized clinical trial study. 16 patients were taken for the study after the sample was calculated through G power analysis software. According to the inclusion criteria, patients between age 40 and 65, both males and females, with stage 1, 2, or 3, patients with gait and balance disorders were taken for study. Patients not fulfilling the criteria were excluded. Group 1 received an exercise gaming treatment plan which included wii perfect ten balances, wii-skiing, and wii-cycling. Patients received three sessions per week for two months. Each treatment session lasted 50 minutes with two minutes of rest between each exercise. Group 2 received a conventional treatment plan which included balance training, gait training, stretching and strengthening exercises. Patients received three sessions per week for two months. Results: The mean difference of UPDRS was 87.25 before treatment and 81.12 after treatment in group 1, while it was 86.25 before and 86.00 after treatments. The dynamic gait index was 14.12 before treatment and 19.12 after treatment in group 1. The average group score was 14.12 before treatment and 16.21 after treatment. Conclusion: The study concluded that Exer-games have shown a significant impact on the balance and gait of Parkinson’s patients as compared to conventional physical therapy alone. Keywords: Gaming, UPDRS, DGI, Parkinson, Postural Instability
Making Home Work; Making Work Home: Charting a New Paradigm for Employment Relations in an Emerging Work Environment
Authors:   Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, Biriowu C. S
Published: January 2023

Following the emergence of the virtual Organization resulting from the third and fourth phases of the Industrial revolution, the old Employment Relations paradigm has seized to function optimally. The objective of this paper was to explore an Employment Relations paradigm shift that will match the contemporary workforce, workplace and Organization. This paper explored the people management models that emerged in the phases of the industrialization process. Exploring extant literature, the effect of the third and fourth Industrial revolution with the corresponding digital production process that gave rise to the emergence of remote working, a remote workforce and a digital organization were unveiled. The challenges faced with the management of the digital workforce, including the implications of the birth of Remote Working on Employment Relations were analyzed. The paper posited that the workplace rules currently in vogue are modeled to work for physical workplace settings. The paper concluded and recommended that models of workplace rule making for Remote working will now need the instrumentality of high cost technologies, employees and Managers re-skilling as an Employment Relations paradigm shift that will make work home, and home work. Keywords: Employment Relations, Paradigm Shift, Remote workforce, Digital Organization.
Updated version after review of: R script Individual Patient Data Meta-analysis Type D
Authors: Lodder Paul
Published: January 2023

New version of the R-script used to process the data and run a multilevel logistic regression, updated after peer-review
The third Oregon climate assessment report : January 2017
Authors:   Oregon Climate Change Research Institute, Dalton Meghan M. , Dello Kathie D. , Hawkins Linnia , Mote Philip W. , Rupp David E.
Published: January 2023

As per Oregon State Legislature House Bill 3543. Burning fossil fuels to run our factories, heat our homes, and drive our cars produces heat-trapping gases that unequivocally warm the planet. Effects of warming are evident on physical, biological, and human and managed systems across the globe, and here in Oregon. This report presents strengthening evidence that Oregon is already experiencing the effects of climate change.
Critical Impurity and the Race for Critical Phenomenology
Authors: Ortega Mariana
Published: January 2023

Informed by María Lugones’s understanding of the “logic of purity,” this essay analyzes the race for critical phenomenology. It suggests how Lugones’s analysis of such a logic may guide us in developing phenomenological analyses of complex social identities such as race. It also shows how traces of the logic of purity remain even in critical phenomenological analyses of race. Specifically, the essay analyzes the methodological call for a reduction of quasi-transcendental structures. Ultimately an attitude and practice of critical criticality and a mode of critical impurity are suggested so as to avoid problematic traces of the logic of purity. Ultimately, the discussion reveals how Latina feminist theorizing stands to enhance critical phenomenology.
Visibilización de las estrategias de rebranding y captura corporativa de la salud pública por la industria del cannabis
Authors: Isorna Manuel , Villanueva-Blasco Victor J.
Published: January 2023

Cuando las políticas afectan a los determinantes comerciales de la salud, como el alcohol, el tabaco
y el cannabis se conoce como captura corporativa de la salud pública. El objetivo del estudio fue
visibilizar las estrategias promotoras del cultivo, consumo y regulación del cannabis orientadas
hacia una regulación conveniente para la industria, en detrimento de la salud pública. Se siguió
un diseño exploratorio cualitativo utilizando un muestro intencional a partir de los diversos
canales de información utilizados por la industria del cannabis. Las estrategias de rebranding y
captura corporativa halladas se fundamentan en: a) argumentos de desarrollo económico en los
que justificar su expansión y una regulación laxa; b) fomento de una imagen positiva del cannabis
asociando su consumo a fines de salud y bienestar; c) fomento de una imagen social más aceptable
del consumidor, del autocultivador e, incluso, del vendedor; d) la captación y fidelización de
consumidores a través de productos derivados del cine, la televisión o los videojuegos, y de manera
especial a través de influencers; e) los regalos publicitarios y de patrocinio de eventos dirigidos al
“tarjet” de los potenciales consumidores; f) la difusión de fake news que sugieren que el cannabis
cura enfermedades; y, g) procesos distorsionadores que afectan a la investigación sobre el cannabis,
cuando la financiación proviene de la industria del cannabis. Estos hallazgos ponen de manifiesto las
acciones de captura corporativa de la industria del cannabis, orientadas a bloquear o retrasar las
medidas de salud pública que son contrarias a sus intereses económicos.
Menores y consumo de cannabis: un análisis por género y edad
Authors: Rial Antonio
Published: January 2023

El consumo de cannabis sigue constituyendo a día de hoy uno de los principales problemas de salud
pública en la población juvenil tanto española como europea. A las elevadas prevalencias de consumo
actuales se unen nuevos formatos y nuevos rituales de consumo, niveles de THC significativamente
mayores y edades de inicio especialmente tempranas, lo cual suscita una creciente preocupación social,
especialmente cuando nos referimos a adolescentes. El presente trabajo, llevado a cabo con una
muestra de casi 4.000 estudiantes de 12 a 17 años de la comunidad gallega, no sólo permite constatar
los elevados niveles de consumo existentes a edades tempranas y tasas de consumo problemático
alarmantes, sino que evidencia la interesante interacción entre las variables género y edad, que se da
en las fases iniciales del consumo. Asumir que en términos generales puede haber o no diferencias
de género en el consumo de cannabis implica ignorar el papel de las normas y roles de género en los
procesos de socialización de las y los adolescentes. De forma más concreta, se ha constatado niveles
de consumo y consumo problemático (evaluado a través del CAST) significativamente mayores entre
las chicas a los 14-15 años, produciéndose una progresiva masculinización del consumo de cannabis a
partir de dicha edad. Estos resultados poseen interesantes implicaciones a la hora de diseñar nuevas
estrategias y políticas de prevención.
El uso terapéutico del cannabis y los cannabinoides
Authors: Silva Joao P. , Carvalho Felix
Published: January 2023

Los cannabinoides se dirigen principalmente al sistema endocannabinoide (ECS), que surge
como un objetivo terapéutico potencialmente interesante debido a su importante papel en la
modulación de procesos biológicos clave en todo el organismo. Como tal, los cannabinoides
ya se han propuesto como, por ejemplo, antieméticos, agentes antiespásticos, estimulantes del
apetito, antiepilépticos, analgésicos, depresores de la presión intraocular o como agentes para
controlar los trastornos del movimiento en el síndrome de Tourette.
Aquí revisamos las pruebas de investigación disponibles sobre el uso del cannabis y los cannabinoides
para un conjunto de aplicaciones terapéuticas sugeridas, y abordamos algunos de los
riesgos a corto y largo plazo que se han correlacionado con el uso de estas sustancias.
Encontramos escasas pruebas científicas que apoyen el uso de productos basados en el cannabis
para la mayoría de las aplicaciones sugeridas, así como ninguna necesidad médica no satisfecha
que no esté ya abordada por los medicamentos existentes (algunos basados en cannabinoides)
en el mercado. En este escenario, los riesgos potenciales asociados al uso crónico de estas sustancias
pueden disuadir su uso médico.
Introduction
Authors: Grøn Lone , Mattingly Cheryl
Published: January 2023

The introduction outlines the key claims concerning imagistic approaches to inquiry that are developed throughout this collection. It sketches a history of imagistic modes of inquiry and representation that have emerged within anthropology. However, it also argues that the imagistic concerns more than merely representation. Rather, the notion of the imagistic, as developed here, suggests avenues for reconfiguring the everyday lifeworld. A hallmark of the volume is its genre-bending conversations between art, philosophy, and anthropology. It asks such questions as: How might imagistic inquiries trouble common sense notions of the good life, intimate others, and care in old age?
“Yeah … ​Yeah”
Authors: Grøn Lone
Published: January 2023

This chapter explores imagistic signatures and responsive events, i.e., intersubjective exchanges of voices, sound words, actual words, and embodied gestures, at a Danish dementia ward. Rather than approaching these non-discursive modes of expression and communication as pathological or as somehow fundamentally lacking, I see them as foundational to human experience and sociality. I work from a basic premise: that experience is ontologically ungrounded and that a responsive relationship exists between the ‘ungroundedness’ and the ‘realness’ of experience. The lived experience of ungroundedness is accentuated in old age, where bodily functions, social worlds, and selves deteriorate or transform with a heightened intensity. More specifically, the ungroundedness of experience faces us head on in lives with dementia, and imagistic approaches, therefore, have a direct and pressing relevance. Drawing on the work of Bernhard Waldenfels, I argue that imagistic inquiries provide avenues for the exploration of life worlds marked by cognitive differences, which makes it possible to engage with the experience of alterity without pathologizing it, but also without domesticating it.
Virtues and Vexations
Authors: Whyte Susan Reynolds
Published: January 2023

Following cooperation and conflicts among caregivers in rural eastern Uganda reveals three dimensions of care. Care is composite; it has multiple elements and involves many people. Care is a heavily moral matter, where virtue is mirrored in vexation with others who are criticized for not caring enough. Care is contingent in that it depends on histories and events in the lives of care givers and receivers. Across these features of care run overall themes of intimacy and its gradations. To illuminate them, I use Alfred Schultz's contrast between immediate shared experience and the image of an Other no longer present.
The Staircase
Authors: Wentzer Helle Sofie
Published: January 2023

Drawing on the ethics of E. Levinas in “Transcendence and Height” and the embodiment of the ethical encounter, the chapter presents the staircase as a learning-case that reflects the dependency of frail elderly persons after hospitalization on being met by the ‘welfare Others’ in ways that afford ‘transcendence and height’, i.e., resurrection and hope of returning home and to oneself, in particular, when the present situation of the elderly person and his/her prospects for the future are related to loss and fundamental change. Patient care pathways of elderly persons are indeterminate and subjunctive with uncertain dimensions of care. These uncertainties add to the frailty of elderly persons and draw critical attention to the organization of care pathways. In the story about Ben's transition to home, the staircase demonstrates the importance of ethical judgment as a sensibility toward ‘the Good’ in the face of the embodied Other. Thus, this chapter claims that phenomenology with imagistic dimensions of care opens up an ethical sensibility in decisions on the elderly persons' return to home and needs of self-care.
Introduction
Authors: Eggemeier Matthew T. , Fritz, Peter Joseph , Guth Karen V.
Published: January 2023

The co-editors introduce the volume by establishing its context in the social upheaval and protest movements in the United States between 2017 and 2020, from the Women’s March and protests over the “Muslim ban” to the George Floyd protests and social unrest surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic in summer 2020. They argue that the diversity of contributions coheres as a snapshot of the U.S. religious left in the 2010s and 2020s. The co-editors explain the book’s four-part organization and summarize the ten chapters.
Capital’S “Secret Orders”
Authors: Taylor Mark Lewis
Published: January 2023

This chapter develops a critical theory that fuses race, capital, and U.S. empire to understand the rise of white supremacy during Donald Trump’s presidency. Despite important gender-related criticisms of W. E. B. Du Bois’s thought on “secret orders,” this account continues to challenge contemporary thinkers to develop an expansive theory of racism that addresses both capitalist exploitation and imperial domination. Effective resistance by Christians, religious leaders, and other people of conscience demands critique of the “U.S. corporate warrior elite” who work at the conjunction of white supremacy and capitalism.
Iftars, Prayer Rooms, and #DeleteUber
Authors: Snarr C. Melissa
Published: January 2023

Organizing among Muslim American workers lays bare Protestant Christian religious biases in purportedly secular institutions. Labor organizing surrounding nondiscrimination with regard to religious practices, like five daily prayers and iftars, reveals how the very structure of American workplaces cannot accommodate Muslim practice, not because of the nonreligious orientation of the workplace, but because of its unstated Christian orientation. The chapter proposes postsecularity as a category for understanding this religious phenomenon. Postsecularity prevents the expunging of religion from public spaces (as critics of "secularism" may fear or champions of the secular may celebrate) and enlivens Christian resistance to these particularly Christian forms of cooption and distortion that curtail interreligious cooperation and authentic religious practice by Christians, Muslims, and others alike.
Slogan, Women’s Protest, and Religion
Authors: Pui-lan Kwok
Published: January 2023

Three slogans from women’s protests indicate shifts in moral reasoning influencing politics and struggles for liberation. The first, “For God and Home and the Native Land,” comes from the late nineteenth century. It affirmed expansion of women’s public roles in religion, economics, and politics. The racial and class-based limits of protests supported by this slogan, however, are immediately recognizable: it came from and appealed to white, married, middle-class women and upheld settler colonialism and Jim Crow segregation. The second, “Our bodies, ourselves,” shifted beyond expansion of public roles to seek full-blown historical subjectivity for women. Women’s bodies became a battleground; varied women’s protest movements unified in the fight. Racial, heterosexist, and geographic biases remained, and vigorous contestation in activism, the academy, and religious groups transpired through the early 2010s. The third, #MeToo (first coined in 2006, without the hashtag), oriented protests from 2017 forward, shedding particular light on sexual harassment and abuse of women. The chapter ends with a special plea for progressive religious mobilization through social networks.
The Grammar of Romanticism: Shelley’s Prepositions
Authors: McGrath Brian
Published: January 2023

In The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt notes that the language of the Romans “to live” and “to be among men” were synonyms. What does it mean to be “among” others? What sort of political authority (if any) follows from this particular preposition? This chapter investigates the minimal non-relation that “among” implies through several textual moments and draws out the implications for thinking about poetry and politics, beginning with the opening paragraphs from The Declaration of Independence. To think the politics of “among” further the chapter turns to two famous poems by P. B. Shelley (“Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” and “Ode to the West Wind”) where Shelley teases out the incompatibility of “being among,” as a grammatical relationship, and tropes of address like apostrophe. “Hymn” moves from a conspicuous appearance of the preposition “among” to a figure of apostrophe while “Ode” moves from apostrophe to another conspicuous use of “among.” The chiasmus raises a question of pressing importance to Shelley (and modern democracy): can one be among others and address them at the same time? The chapter then turns to Shelley's unfinished poem The Triumph of Life, which similarly raises questions about prepositions and political speech.
Prescriptions for Virtuosity
Authors: Karchmer Eric I.
Published: January 2023

The final chapter concludes the discussion of the disease–pattern dualism by exploring the clinical potentials of bianzheng lunzhi when deployed by a virtuoso physician. The chapter is based on the account of a clinical case from the 1970s. A young doctor and his teacher struggle over the correct clinical approach for a case of tonsillitis. The senior doctor relies on a classical methodology adapted from the Treatise on Cold Damage. The junior doctor relies on a standard approach found in his textbooks, based on the methodology of bianzheng lunzhi. The patient’s condition worsens because of the conflicting treatments, until the senior doctor resolves the impasse in a moment of clinical virtuosity. The senior doctor’s success suggests a way forward for the postcolonial struggles of Chinese medicine: the virtuosity of the profession’s best doctors, their ability to innovate within new institutional constraints, will keep the practice vibrant.
Concrete Utopianism
Authors: Wilder Gary
Published: January 2023

Through a critique of Left realism, culturalism, and pessimism from the standpoint of heterodox Marxism and Black radicalism, this book insists that we place questions of solidarity and temporality, critical internationalism and concrete utopianism at the center of Left political thinking. The author makes a bold case for embracing a politics of the possible-impossible adequate to current planetary challenges.
It’s Still Happening Again
Authors: Wilder Gary
Published: January 2023

As counterpoint to the last chapter, this one focuses on the oppressive character of untimely persistence, repetition, and haunting—especially in Atlantic world racial formations. I critique both Afro-Pessimism's ontological and Derrida's deconstructive hauntological attempts to understanding persistence and repetition. I suggest that both are ultimately non-historical and anti-political. I develop an alternative, dialectical, understanding of haunting repetition that is historical and political, through the work of Octavia Butler, Stuart Hall, and Hortense Spillers. The last section is a close reading of the Prologue to Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, which I develop as a rejoinder to Afro-Pessimist ontology and Derridean hauntology.
Leaders in the Communities
Authors: Tournadre Jérôme
Published: January 2023

An analysis of the most committed activists shows there are many women and men claiming to be “community leaders” in their neighborhoods. This situation contributes to the rootedness and visibility of the collective in the districts. The UPM draws part of its legitimacy from the aggregation of these individual “capital of autochthony”: popular and local social capital based on neighborly, kinship and friendship relations, and local reputations. The relationship between the UPM and “its” community leaders does, however, go both ways. Indeed, everything leads us to believe that, in a second phase, the fact of belonging to this collective with its growing notoriety has strengthened the position of the activists in their neighborhoods by allowing them to respond to some of the requests made by residents. This all entails a form of circularity or, more exactly, a continuous and mutual reinforcement of the positions of individuals and the position of the collective.
Lost in Transition?
Authors: Tournadre Jérôme
Published: January 2023

This chapter focuses on the youngest activists in the organization. In recent years, various sociologists and anthropologists have suggested that some of the young poor people in the Global South are trapped by a boredom linked to their socioeconomic incapacity to fully enter adulthood. If the careers and social characteristics of several UPM activists aged from 20 to a little over 30 seems to support these hypotheses, this chapter also shows how commitment can help to escape this situation of “waithood” (“waiting” for “adulthood”) and the feeling of social uselessness that accompanies it. Partly built on emotional bonds, their activism structures their days and gives them access to a politicization that helps them to put their condition into perspective. Above all, it provides them with a valued role within the “community” and, therefore, helps them to fit into their most immediate social environment: their neighborhood
Epilogue
Authors: Tournadre Jérôme
Published: January 2023

This stroll along the edges of protest has made it possible to see the emergence of a very particular political form: the “politics of the near.” This latter is produced by the various actions of the militants described in this book, since these actions are rooted in autochthony, proximity and, more generally, in the critiques that these individuals formulate on the basis of their daily lives. In South Africa, this same critique draws more particularly on the observation regularly made by activists and those they represent: the intertwining of blackness and poverty has not loosened with the end of apartheid. Finally, the fact that the politics of the near draws on various materials, political and social as much as cultural and emotional, helps us to get beyond the logic of the great division which, in contemporary societies, is often drawn between politics and the social, between institutionalized politics and popular politics, between politics, infrapolitics and protopolitics, and between the public and private spheres.
From Sense to Sensings
Authors: DeRoo Neal
Published: January 2023

The task of this chapter is to outline the implications expressivity has for our understanding of epistemology and its relation to ontology. It begins by tracing the shift from Frege's notion of sense to the notion of sensing introduced last chapter. Drawing on Merleau-Ponty's notion of flesh, sense/sensing is explained as the material-spiritual expression of flesh in and as the world. As such, ‘sense’ is always already ontological, even as ontology is therefore revealed to have a necessarily meaning-full tenor that may not be adequately captured by episteme or epistemology. In this regard, we see a phenomenological resonance with Karen Barad's “onto-epistemology” in arguing that sense/sensing is best understood as a sort of directedness or orientation within being: engaging the world cognitively/epistemologically is not primarily a knowing-about the world, but a practical interaction (a doing) that shapes and alters the world. Knowing, being, and doing are necessarily intertwined in the autopoietic nature of expressive phenomenality.
Making Sense of Experience
Authors: DeRoo Neal
Published: January 2023

The task of this chapter is to outline the implications expressivity has for the relationship between conditions and what they condition. It argues two major claims: first, that concrete “empirical” phenomena alter the transcendental condition(s) of their own appearing; and second that transcendental conditions are experienced as operative in subjective experience, albeit indirectly. This allows us to distinguish between transcendental, empirical, transcendentally empirical, and ultra-transcendental elements of phenomenological constitution. Because of the expressive relationship between these elements, our empirical experiences necessarily shape our understanding of the transcendental, and our understanding of the transcendental shapes our empirical experiences. Transcendental phenomenology is therefore revealed as a necessarily political and critical endeavor: it is both politically constituted within empirical conditions and politically constitutive of those conditions, insofar as it articulates the (transcendental) concepts (including race, gender, sexuality, etc.) that are generative of empirical conditions. As such, radical politics requires the articulation and transformation of transcendental conditions, and so transcendental phenomenology is revealed to be essential for politics.
Porn Wars and Pornotroping: Counter-Narratives of Obscenity amid Transitions in Feminist Activism
Authors: Lawrence Patrick S.
Published: January 2023

The third chapter of Obscene Gestures situates obscenity discourses amid significant new movements in Feminism in the 1980s that challenged how sexual content in media, including pornography, was understood. Drawing on the theoretical work of Hortense Spillers and Cherríe Moraga, the chapter juxtaposes Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Kathy Acker's Blood and Guts in High School to explore how the experiences of women of color diverge from those of their white contemporaries in the arena of sexual transgression. The chapter confronts a history of representational over-determination of sex and sexuality for women of color to show that these were not equally open as avenues of liberation, even as sex-positive feminists were fighting against restrictive cultural forces seeking to control depictions of women's sexuality. This analysis reveals one way that financial and critical success for women of color come at the cost of negotiating multi-dimensional forms of oppression, while highlighting the necessity that any theorization of free-speech discourses be intersectional.
AIDS Politics Is Local: Narratives of Plague and Place in the Culture Wars
Authors: Lawrence Patrick S.
Published: January 2023

The fourth chapter brings the project to the close of the twentieth century, beginning with Robert Mapplethorpe's final exhibition The Perfect Moment and concluding with Tony Kushner's play Angels in America. Both works were protested for their celebration of non-heteronormative desire and identity, and both provoked discussions about sexual morality in the context of the AIDS epidemic, crystallizing major nuances in obscenity discourses. Because same-sex desire had historically been assumed to fulfill the legal criterion that something be offensive in order to merit suppression, these frank texts challenge this presumption while engaging in deliberate acts of LGBTQ+ visibility. The regional challenges that resulted when the works toured also highlight the importance of local politics in determining the fate of transgressive sexual representations, as they were celebrated in some locales and picketed or prosecuted in others. Because Supreme Court rulings on obscenity include provisions that works can be banned if they violate community standards, obscenity prosecutions often do take on such local characteristics, demonstrating the complex legacy of obscenity cases.
Epilogue
Authors: Lawrence Patrick S.
Published: January 2023

The epilogue closes the book by envisioning how obscenity and race intersect in the twenty-first century with the advent of the internet and the persistence of political culture wars. The primary discussion concerns the recent success of Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B.'s “WAP” and the recent purge of videos from Pornhub under pressure from credit card companies and social activists. Through both events, the epilogue asserts that some progress has been made at achieving more egalitarian discourses of sexual transgression, especially in the recording industry and hip hop in particular, though some of the old antinomies of the twentieth century persist with respect to pornography and sex work.
Indexical Images: Trace, Resemblance, and Code
Authors: Weigel Sigrid
Published: January 2023

The chapter departs from discussing the applicability of Peirce's semiotics (with the distinction of icon, index, and symbol) to images, which forms the background for the concept of the ‘indexical image’. It approaches the position of the latter within image-theory through the question whether the images designated as indexical images refer to traces and/ or resemblance. Taking this question as the focus, the chapter develops a distinction between ‘resemblance through contact’ (left behind traces that produce resemblance), ‘shadow resemblance’ (ephemeral traces captured by means of drawing, photography, or film), ‘non-resemblant traces’ that have to be deciphered, and ‘diagrams and coded indicators’ (not referring to traces but rather to a code or calculation).
Defamatory Images: Disfiguration in Physiognomy and Caricature’s Two Bodies
Authors: Weigel Sigrid
Published: January 2023

The chapter departs from the controversy about the ‘Muhammed Caricatures,’ interpreted as a religious war between comparable fundamentalist positions (ban of pictures vs. freedom of press), and analyses the iconographic tradition the individual cartoons refer to. Their pictorial rhetoric, typical for the genre's tension between critique and defamation, initiates a) a theoretical investigation of the genre and its relation to the joke in reference to the psychoanalytic approach (Freud, Kris, Gombrich) and b) an archaeology of the caricature/ pictorial satire beyond the mainstream narrative of the genre, whose origin usually is seen in the invention of ‘caricatura’ as distorted portrait in 16th-century Italy. In contrast, the chapter traces the history of pictorial satire back to the religious war of the 15th century, iconoclasm, and the defamatory image policy of the 14th century (Schandbilder), and interprets the invention of the distorted likeness in relation to the emergence of physiognomics. The last part summarizes these paths in a new theoretical approach to the political theology of the genre, namely, the caricature's two bodies.
Cult Images: Iconoclastic Controversy, The Desire for Images, and the Dialectic of Secularization
Authors: Weigel Sigrid
Published: January 2023

Departing from the phenomenon of political violence triggered by controversies over images or enacted by means of images, the chapter investigates the religious implications of the production and distribution of images both in theoretical and historical perspectives. It refers to Benjamin's analysis of the interaction between the ‘cult value’ and ‘art value’ of images within the dialectics of secularization and to the role of ikons, aniconism, and iconoclasm in the history of religions. From a re-reading of Hegel's description of the crusades and the encounter with the ‘empty grave’ and his interpretation of the fundamental representational problem of the Eucharist, the chapter evolves the argument of a specific Christian desire for images. Against this background, the ‘invention of the image’ in European art history (13th to 15th cenury.), i.e., the scenic panel painting, gets analysed in respect of the separation of the image space from the space of cult.
Angels: Images of Making-Appearance Between Religion, Art, and Science
Authors: Weigel Sigrid
Published: January 2023

The chapter discusses angels as images of a-visibility par excellance and therefor as symptoms of the image question. Since angels were invented in theology as the personification of transcendental qualities and defined as ephemeral, bodyless creatures lacking any real place, their making an appearance in the visible sphere and their pictorial representation produce a fundamental image problem. This problem forms the background for the discussion of the iconography of angels and their position in the image (at the threshold between place and space) and in the history of knowledge. Hence, astrology is analysed as a symptomatic site of conflict between antiquity and Christianity upon the image right at the sky, because the angels' dwelling in the heaven necessarily came into conflict with the tradition of pagan constellations. When the religious sense of angels disappeared in modernity, their image either migrated to art and poetry (as personification of the ‘miraculous’) or became the object of methods of natural sciences (e.g., comparative anatomy or measurement), whereby the necessary failure of the latter triggered the emergence of cultural science.
Perspectives of the Grammatology of Images Beyond Visual Culture
Authors: Weigel Sigrid
Published: January 2023

The final chapter summarizes the preceding chapters in respect of the relation between trace and image and drafts perspectives of the grammatological image theory (developed in the book) applicable for issues beyond the fields analysed in the book: for example, perspectives of a political theology of images in the digital era, the question of the ‘true image’ in history, and musical writing between trace and sound.
Pengaruh Penggunaan Metode Demonstrasi Dan Resitasi Terhadap Hasil Belajar Ipa Siswa Kelas V Yang Memiliki Motivasi Belajar Yang Berbeda Di Sekolah Dasar Kecamatan Bugeman Situbondo
Authors: Ningsih Hasiyati
Published: January 2023

Metode pembelajaran yang bervariasi sangat berpengaruh terhadap hasil belajar siswa. Pusat pembelajaran bukan lagi terletak pada guru melainkan pada siswa. Rumusan masalah penelitian ini adalah Adakah perbedaan hasil belajar IPA antara kelompok siswa yang diajar dengan metode demonstrasi dengan kelompok siswa yang diajar menggunakan metode resitasi, Adakah perbedaan hasil belajar IPA kelompok siswa yang memiliki motivasi belajar tinggi dengan kelompok siswa yang memiliki motivasi belajar rendah, Adakah pengaruh interaksi antara penggunaan metode demonstrasi, resitasi dan  motivasi belajar siswa terhadap hasil belajar IPA kelas V SDN 2 Bugeman dan SDN 1 Bugeman. Metode analisis datanya menggunakan uji Anova Two Way, dengan rancangan penelitian Quasi experiment design, namun sebelumnya perlu dilakukan uji kenormalan dan juga kesamaan ragam. Pengujian kenormalan menggunakan Kolmogorov-Smirnov. Uji kesamaan ragam menggunakan Levene Test.
Kemampuan Manajerial Guru Pendidikan Agama Islam Dalam Memberdayakan Masjid Sebagai Sarana Mengembangkan Budaya Agama Di MTS Raudatul Jannah Wonokusumo Bondowoso Tahun Pelajaran 2019/2020
Authors: Sholehatiin Novida Putri Intan , Sa'diyah Halimatus
Published: January 2023

MTs Raudatul Jannah Wonokusumo Bondowoso adalah salah satu madrasah yang kental akan agamanya. Penelitian ini menggunakan Data Kualitatif. Penelitian ini digunakan berbagai macam pengumpulan data yaitu observasi, wawancara dan dokumentasi. Teknik analisis data kualitatif terdiri dari empat tahapan, yaitu reduksi data, penyajian data, dan penarikan kesimpulan atau verifikasi. Merencanakan dan mengaplikasikan dalam madrasah dengan memberdayakan masjid dalam maksud semua kegiatan dilakukan di masjid, budaya keagamaan yang dibentuk diantaranya adalah budaya salim, MP3 Al-Qur’an, bel pergantian jam pelajaran menggunakan shalawat, membaca Asma’ul Husna dan mengaji Al-Qur’an sebelum memulai pelajaran, jum’at shadaqah, shalat dhuha dan dhuhur berjama’ah, mengaji dengan metode usmani, dan Ta’ziah. Upaya guru PAI dalam memberdayakan masjid dengan cara membiasakan peserta didik praktek langsung dalam kegiatan keagamaan yang dilaksanakan oleh madrasah.
Implikasi Ekstra Kurikuler Terhadap Pendidikan Agama Islam
Authors: Kurniawan Saeful , Hosa Hosaini
Published: January 2023

Kegiatan ekstra kurikuler adalah kegiatan yang dilaksanakan diluar jam sekolah yang telah ditentukan berdasarkan kurikulum yang berlaku. Ekstra kurikuler bisa dilakukan dengan metode ceramah, metode tanya-jawab, metode pemberian tugas, dan metode demonstrasi. Ekstra kurikuler tersebut bisa dilakukan dengan metode pendekatan emosional, rasional, dan fungsional. Eksra kurikuler tersebut bisa memberikan implikasi positif jika dilakukan dengan baik terhadap pengetahuan Pendidikan Agama Islam peserta didik yang mempunyai peranan penting dalam menumbuhkembangkan sumber daya manusia (SDM), sehingga peserta didik menjadi manusia  yang beriman dan bertakwa kepada Allah SWT.
Manajemen Pembelajaran Bahasa Mandarin Di Sekolah Berbasis Pesantren (Studi Kasus Sma Nurul Jadid Paiton Probolinggo)
Authors: Hakim A.I Lukman
Published: January 2023

Artikel ini, membahas tentang Manajemen Pembelajaran Bahasa Mandarin di Sekolah Berbasis Pesantren dan bagaimana mengintegrasikannya dengan pendidikan pesantren yang identik dengan pengembangan dan pendalaman ilmu agama. Hal ini dilatar belakangi adanya berbagai masalah terkait dengan pembelajaran bahasa Mandarin di sekolah berbasis pesantren berpotensi bisa mengganggu aktivitas pendidikan pesantren. Sebab, belajar bahasa seperti mandarin membutuhkan konsentrasi penuh. Tipe penelitian yang penulis gunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah pendekatan kualitatif. Digunakannya pendekatan ini didasarkan pada beberapa pertimbangan, pertama, karena penelitian ini berusaha mengungkap secara mendalam makna dari fenomena sosial dan pola nilai yang terjadi secara dinamis dan alami pada latar penelitian, kedua, karena diasumsikan di lapangan terdapat value system dan double reality  yang interaksinya sulit diduga, maka pola tersebut tidak mungkin dibakukan terlebih dahulu sehingga tak terelakkan kehadiran peneliti sebagai key instrument guna mendesain penelitian secara berulang-ulang  (emergent, evolving, develving). Kemudian seluruh data yang diperoleh baik data primer yakni hasil wawancara dengan Kepala Sekolah, Wakil Kepala Sekolah, Guru dan Siswa dianalisa dengan menggunakan deskriptif analitis. Hasil dari penelitian bahwa manajemen pembelajaran Bahasa Mandarin di SMA Nurul Jadid Paiton Probolinggo, ialah menggunakan manajemen integratif. Artinya, manajemen pembelajaran bahasa Mandarin di SMA Nurul Jadid diintegrasikan dangan program pondok pesantren sepeti; pengasramaan siswa program bahasa Mandarin, menggunakan pendekatan kegiatan ekstrakurekuler, mendatangkan native speaker dan fasilitas pendukung, penyediaan perpustakaan bahasa Mandarin, membentuk MGMP Guru Mandarin, menjalin relasi dangan Lembaga-lembaga Bahasa Mandarin, dan melayani dan Menyediakan Pelatih bahasa mandarin bagi sekolah luar Nurul Jadid.
Katakunci: Manajemen, Pembelajaran, Bahasa Mandarin, dan Sekolah Berbasis Pesantren
Paradigma - paradigma Manajemen dalam Islam
Authors: Asra Moh
Published: January 2023

Managemen merupakan unsur terpenting dalam segmen pemikiran hukum Islam karena ia langsung bersentuhan dengan pengaturan pranata sosial. Managemen di bangun di atas sendi-sendi asas persamaan, keadilan, dan pemenuhan hak dan kewajiban. Prinsip kesetaraan dalam Islam mesti diapresiasi secara absolute guna memunculkan sistem yang Islami yang memadukan kebebasan dan pertanggungjawaban.
Secara normatif, prinsip-prinsip di atas sudah disebutkan dalam teks ajaran suci baik al-Qur’ān maupun al-Sunnah. Dalam praktiknya, prinsip-prinsip tersebut perlu diaktualisasikan sesuai konteks perubahan dan perkembangan masyarakat. Sebagai makhluk sosial, manusia terus melakukan interaksi dengan linkungan sekitarnya, karenanya, diperlukan perangkat aturan (fiqh) yang dapat mewadahi persoalan-persoalan interaksi sosial tersebut sesuai prinsip kesetaraan dan kemaslahatan.  Untuk keperluan ini, teori-teori  atau norma-norma dalam al-Qur’an maupun al-Hadith perlu diimplementasikan kedalam kehidupan nyata, kontekstual sesuai dengan realitas perkembangan yang tengah terjadi hampir di semua lini kehidupan. berbangsa dan bernegara.
Dalam segmen menegemen yang Islami ini sangatlah penting bahwa prinsip-prinsip kesetaraan, keadilan, keterbukaan, cerdas, inovatif dan kreatif dengan konsep metafora rasul (sidq, amanah, tablig dan fatanah), dimplementasikan dalam kehidupan berbangsa dan bernegara.
Problematika Praktik Poligami di Desa Karanganyar Paiton Probolinggo dalam Tinjauan Islam dan Undang-Undang No. 1 Tahun 1974
Authors: Faridy Faridy
Published: January 2023

Artikel ini membahas hasil penelitian tentang praktik poligami di Desa Karanganyar Paiton Probolinggo. Instrument yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini ialah hokum islam dan undang-undang nomor 1 Tahun 1974 tentang perkawinan. Walaupun secara agama islam dan undang-undang perkawinan poligami bukanlah sesuatu yang aib, senyampang syarat-syaratnya dipenuhi. Akan tetapi dampaknya terhadap keberlangsungan kehidupan keluarga sangat nyata. Problem yang muncul dalam praktik poligami di Desa Desa Karanganyar Paiton Probolinggo ialah tidak terpenuhinya syarat-syarat yang telah ditentukan dalam islam dan peraturan perundang-undangan. Hal terjadi karena  kurangnya pemahaman poligami, sehingga tidak memperhatikan syarat-syarat yang harus dipenuhi.
Kata Kunci: Problematika, Praktik Poligami, Islam dan Undang-Undang
Budaya Pengambilan Keputusan Organisasi
Authors: Hakim Lukman Nul , Ahmad Musaddad
Published: January 2023

The progress of an educational institution cannot be separated from the influence and power of leadership which in this case is the principal. Leadership is an important scientific discipline that must be possessed by a leader so that he can apply the concept of leadership well. One of the important elements in leadership theory is making the right decisions so that later they have effective implications. This research was conducted in a private junior high school in Situbondo district, with the aim of understanding and obtaining an objective, factual, accurate and systematic picture of the problems in the research object. Data about the object of this study were obtained by means of observation, interviews and documentation of the decision-making patterns that exist in the private junior high school in making decisions. The research method uses qualitative research. From the results of the discussion obtained from the research, it can be concluded that the decision-making culture in the junior high school which is the location of this research has a characteristic, namely the uniformity of understanding that a decision-making must always be determined in an official meeting forum involving all education personnel. But of course in this case the researcher does not provide a justification but only provides an overview of the phenomenon of decision making in a private junior high school in Situbondo district.