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Beyond the Black Power Salute
Authors: Kaliss Gregory J.
Published: January 2024

This book explores the wide-ranging nature of athlete activism, concentrating on the period between the mid-1960s and the mid-1970s. As the nation grappled with a series of upheavals regarding race, gender, sexuality, the economy, and war, sports became enmeshed in a wide range of protest activities and activism. Moving beyond the famous medal stand protest at the 1968 Olympics, this book spotlights several key moments and trends related to boxing, women’s tennis, college and professional football and basketball, distance running, track and field, and baseball. A wide range of sources illuminate these stories: memoirs, firsthand accounts, biographies, popular music, poetry, and, most critically, media coverage. Mainstream media sources, including newspapers, television interviews, and magazines, in addition to alternative media sources such as African American and left-wing newspapers and magazines, provide rich and varied perspectives on athletes’ efforts to challenge systemic racism, fight for economic equality, contest gender norms, and build community support and pride for minority groups. By focusing on the actions of both African American athletes and women athletes, these examples showcase a wide range of athlete activist efforts and draw connections between events and individuals in different sports and locations across the country. Together, they show what changes took place, what obstacles remained, and highlight the potentials and limitations of sports to effect social transformation in American life.
The ABA and the Origins of Hip-Hop America
Authors: Kaliss Gregory J.
Published: January 2024

This chapter analyzes the larger meanings of the American Basketball Association (ABA). In existence from 1967 to 1976, the ABA offered innovative rules, on-court flair, and increased opportunities for African American players. Taking pride in its reputation as an outsiders’ league, the ABA encouraged a more wide-open and improvisational style of play that came primarily from black players on urban playgrounds. Wearing their hair in large Afros and exploding for powerful slam dunks on the court, black players in the ABA celebrated an African American aesthetic rooted in rhythmic sophistication, personal style, and improvisation. By modeling an early form of hip-hop culture, they also called attention to the plight of African Americans suffering from the legacies of white flight and urban decline.
Conclusion
Authors: Kaliss Gregory J.
Published: January 2024

This chapter assesses the legacies of athlete activism in the 1960s and 1970s. Although athletes saw financial progress, thanks to baseball player Curt Flood’s efforts to achieve free agency, black athletes such as O. J. Simpson and Michael Jordan often refrained from political activism in order to retain sponsors. Women athletes found new opportunities following Title IX, but funding inequalities for women’s sports persisted, as did sexualized media coverage. In addition, stereotypes limited black athletes’ access to leadership positions, Latinx and transgender athletes faced bitter backlash, and ownership remained almost exclusively white and male. However, following the murder of Trayvon Martin in 2012, a resurgence in athlete activism, including that of WNBA players and football star Colin Kaepernick, pushed for more expansive change in American life.
Virgin Crossing Borders
Authors: Ergun Emek , Keating AnaLouise
Published: January 2024

Recognizing the intricate relationship between “transnational” and “translation,” Virgin Crossing Borders explores how feminists imagine and practice dialogues and collaborations across borders that are infused with racial fears, nationalistic defense mechanisms, and orientalist arrogances? Conceiving translation as a key site of friction between the subjective, the local, and the global, Virgin Crossing Borders argues that it is in those unequal and unpredictable interactions across translationally mediated differences and borders that transnational feminist connectivities materialize. Methodologically innovative in its interdisciplinary approach to the study of translational/transnational feminist connectivities, the book aims to bring translation from the margins to the center of contemporary thinking on transnational feminisms revealing the ways in which translation contributes to the project of feminisms by enabling flows and exchanges of feminist theories, stories, knowledges, affects, and resistances across borders. It does so by unpacking the ways in which the subversive knowledges of Hanne Blank’s Virgin: The Untouched History, a US book on the western history of virginity, traveled to Turkey through the author’s politically engaged translation and was resignified by feminists in Turkey. Analyzing this translational journey as a case study on the potentials and pitfalls of transnational feminisms, Virgin Crossing Borders answers, how can translation help us transform the antagonistic energies of borders into post-oppositional, connectionist energies that are indispensable to the formation of cross-border feminist solidarities and resistances?
Remaking Feminist Subjectivity in Feminist Translation
Authors: Ergun Emek
Published: January 2024

Chapter 4 explores how feminist subjectivity is transformed in contact with traveling translated texts. The first part of the chapter explores translation as a dialogic expansion in the process of which the reader’s locally situated subjectivity engages with the “alien” discourses of the imported text and becomes transformed by that cross-border encounter. The next section, conceiving reading as an embodied encounter, asks how the feminist readers of Virgin’s Turkish translation responded to a border-crossing text within which they were bodily implicated while being implicated outside its geohistorical scope. The analyses illustrate that despite the reasons that situated the western book as irrelevant for, if not against, Turkey’s cultural landscape, the readers managed to bridge across the “west vs. east” chasm.
The Second Skyscraper City
Authors: Leslie Thomas
Published: January 2024

Chicago in 1950 was economically and architecturally moribund; after eight decades of unprecedented economic growth, the Great Depression crushed the city’s real estate market. The 1934 Field Building would be the last skyscraper built in the Loop for twenty years and, despite efforts by civic boosters the “Second City” saw only stagnation and decline. A new generation of architects and engineers, however, stood waiting. Some were products of the city’s prior booms, opening firms that were hungry for any opportunity to innovate. Others were new arrivals—in particular Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, whose arrival as the new director of the Armour Institute’s (later the Illinois Institute of Technology) architecture program in 1937 promised an architectural resurgence.
Prudential, Inland Steel, and the Rebirth of the Loop
Authors: Leslie Thomas
Published: January 2024

Even before Daley’s ascension the Loop saw a cautious re-emergence of high-rise construction. Prudential (Naess & Murphy, 1951-55) and Inland Steel (SOM, 1955-58), showed the range of possible motivations to build and a similarly broad palette of techniques. Prudential was a massive investment by a national insurance firm; its 46 floors were built on the city’s most prominent site by weaving its substructure through active rail yards. Inland was a Chicago-area firm’s statement of faith in the Loop. Prudential was gargantuan and conservative—a “headstone on the lake” that looked more like skyscrapers of the 1930s. Inland, though, was a groundbreaking essay in expressed function and lightweight, metal-and-glass curtain walls that set the city’s architectural bar high for the coming generation of commercial skyscrapers.
Market Dynamics and Geopolitics
Authors: Yeo ShinJoung
Published: January 2024

This chapter explicates the transnational nature of internet industries and the role of geopolitics in organizing the search engine industry and in animating transnational capitalist dynamics. The chapter highlights the inter-capitalist rivalries between the global power centers – China and the European Union -- where the US-based internet giants compete for control. China constitutes an especially significant exception to Google’s market dominance, putting pressure on the US-led information order. Meanwhile, the long-time US ally European Union has been attempting to bolster its own information economy. The tension over the control over information has once again been reignited with the emergence of the Internet as a global marketplace.
Conclusion
Authors: Yeo ShinJoung
Published: January 2024

The political economy of search illustrates deeply transnationalized global capitalism that is interlinked to and interwoven with the internet. For the global power states, the question is not about building a global democratic information system; rather to what extent will the US, China and EU pursue their own interests without disrupting vital markets and destabilizing the shared project of the global capitalist system? Thus, merely altering corporate behavior to be more “competitive” or more “moral,” as if there is a world of a perfect competitive market, is not sufficient. If the history of search offers a lesson, the commodification of our basic search activities wasn’t imperative or a natural progression. It tells us that it can be de-commodified and reorganized as a global public utility. The book concludes that, if capital and capitalist states were mobilized to reorganize our basic social and information provision into markets, then the force of collective opposition lies with labor.
Teresita
Authors: Malcomson Hettie
Published: January 2024

In order to enable people’s struggles and intimate feelings to be alluded to, and stories that pervade danzón practitioners’ lives to be told that would otherwise be absent, short, experimentally written vignettes are interwoven between the more conventionally written chapters of the book: most are ethnographic fiction. Vignette 1 elucidates Teresita’s lived experiences of racism in Veracruz.
Ambivalent Nostalgia
Authors: Malcomson Hettie
Published: January 2024

This chapter brings Svetlana Boym’s classic work on nostalgia into conversation with the proposed typology of ambivalence to explore the particular history of danzón in the Port of Veracruz from the 1890s until the 1980s (the modernization and privatization of the port, workers’ unions, the lives of a docker and a musician, carnival). It proposes that “restorative nostalgia” (where the past is made solid, preserved in a moment shaped by the present) invokes static ambivalences, while “reflective nostalgia” (a yearning for homecoming) engenders utopian ambivalences. The chapter argues that nostalgic representations of the Port and its danzón enable lower-class dockers to be celebrated for their creativity and wit, yet such nostalgic representations of lower-class cultural practices reproduce and erase (past and present) inequalities.
Renata
Authors: Malcomson Hettie
Published: January 2024

In order to enable people’s struggles and intimate feelings to be alluded to, and stories that pervade danzón practitioners’ lives to be told that would otherwise be absent, short, experimentally written vignettes are interwoven between the more conventionally written chapters of the book: most are ethnographic fiction. Vignette 3 documents Renata’s relationship to danzón events, her fondness for the people she’s fought with over the years, and the painful absence of her ill lover, Óscar.
“From Texas to Washington and across to Michigan and Illinois…”
Authors: Bauer Erin E.
Published: January 2024

This chapter explores the performance of conjunto throughout the United States, including musicians emanating from the Midwest, Pacific Northwest, Southwest, and California. While musicians worldwide often maintain homologous connections to familial heritages (genre as identity), nostalgia can help to explain the aesthetic decisions of artists positioned outside of primary conjunto practices. In addition, conjunto musicians situated outside of the customary Texas-Mexican identity tend to retain a more conservative form of the music than artists who are solidly established within the local community. The process of globalization then maintains a folkloric sensibility for participants outside of the central geographic location.
The Cinema of Barbara Stanwyck
Authors: Russell Catherine
Published: January 2024

In twenty-six short essays on Barbara Stanwyck, this book positions the Hollywood actor at the center of a network of intersecting histories of industry, stars and other workers, fans, audiences, and film studies scholarship. In eighty-three films and dozens of TV episodes from 1927 to 1987, Stanwyck created many characters who challenged the gender norms of their time in westerns, films noir, woman’s films, and comedies. Although her politics leaned to the right and she did not identify with feminism, her biography frequently parallels her film roles as an independent woman. The strength and tenacity of her on-screen and off-screen persona became emblematic of gender fluidity in mid-century America. The nonlinear approach of the abecedary helps to tease out the contradictions within Stanwyck’s star image by situating her performances within different forms of inquiry. Drawing on a range of cultural studies, film studies, women’s studies, performance and acting studies, and American cultural history scholarship, this book frames Stanwyck as an “archival star,” which is to say a star with an evolving afterlife that remains incomplete. Women’s media history demands new ways of engaging with the dynamics of gendered and racialized culture and thus, this book adopts a range of strategies to better understand Stanwyck’s accomplishments as well as what she has meant, and might still mean, to different generations of viewers.
Introduction to Stanwyck Studies
Authors: Russell Catherine
Published: January 2024

Barbara Stanwyck is introduced along with the objectives of the book: to place a woman at the center of Hollywood as an archival medium, and to recognize the actor as a worker in plain sight. The inquiry is introduced in the context of feminist media historiography, and Stanwyck’s biographers are introduced along with their quirks of celebrity storytelling. The ABC structure is explained as a structure appropriate to textual detail and Walter Benjamin’s historiography of failed modernity, and the various methods deployed in the book are introduced as tools for the rethinking and reimagining of women’s role in American cultural studies.
Dion the Son and Barbara the Bad Mother
Authors: Russell Catherine
Published: January 2024

When Stanwyck became a TV star in the 1960s, tales of her adopted son, Dion, began to circulate as celebrity gossip, particularly in the context of the “TV family” of The Big Valley. This chapter details Stanwyck’s failed attempt to be a mother, which parallels a surprising number of films in which she is also out of sync with motherhood, including Stella Dallas. Using Lauren Berlant’s account of unfinished sentimentality, this chapter argues that Stanwyck’s reputation as a bad mother should be recognized as a proxy for her status as a single woman and her failure to abide by the codes of heteronormativity.
Forty Guns and The Furies
Authors: Russell Catherine
Published: January 2024

Stanwyck starred in two westerns in the 1950s by auteur directors: The Furies (Anthony Mann, 1950) and Forty Guns (Sam Fuller, 1957). In both films she is a ranch-owning western hero, although in the first she wins the ranch and in the second she loses it. As part of a cycle of late westerns, Stanwyck’s characters do not get old and tired like her male counterparts facing a closed frontier but instead exhibit a new kind of energy in a West that is exposed as misogynist, racist, and corrupt. Mann’s psychological western is compared to Fuller’s campy modernist western, to underscore the way that Stanwyck’s roles not only demystified the genre in the 1950s but also contributed to its transformation into a performative genre.
Jungle Films / White Women
Authors: Russell Catherine
Published: January 2024

This chapter examines three of Stanwyck’s films set in colonial spaces in which, as the white woman, her presence troubles Imperial relations of power and subjugation. A Message to Garcia (1935) and Escape to Burma (1955) are both set in fake jungles. The western Trooper Hook (1959) is set in a very austere desert with an extensive use of process shots, constructing what Laura Mulvey calls a “clumsy sublime.” Drawing on Richard Dyer’s work on whiteness in Hollywood, the chapter argues that these three curious films foreground the dangerous currents of gender as they intersect with race in the discontinuous terrain of the Anthropocene.
Fred Macmurray
Authors: Russell Catherine
Published: January 2024

Stanwyck’s kissing scenes are examined in this chapter in light of Walter Benjamin’s theories of acting in which he describes the film actor as exhibiting a form of self-alienation in industrial production. Stanwyck’s scenes with Fred MacMurray are examined along with other acting partners such as Robert Taylor, Gary Cooper, Robert Ryan, and Ralph Meeker to better assess her performance style as a modality of play. In romantic scenes, Stanwyck’s kisses are frequently dispassionate, or even forced, and very rarely “reciprocal,” suggesting that the humanity within her kissing scenes speaks more about inequity, gendered power, and anxiety than about the representation of love
Irish Mormons
Authors: O'Brien Hazel
Published: January 2024

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is one of the international religions that have arrived from abroad to find adherents in Ireland. Drawing on fieldwork in two LDS communities, Hazel O’Brien explores how the Church is experienced by adherents in Ireland against the backdrop of the country’s increasingly complex religious identity. Irish Latter-day Saints live on the margins of the nation’s religious life and the worldwide LDS movement yet they create a sense of belonging for themselves by drawing on collective memories of both their Irishness and their faith. As O’Brien shows, Irish Latter-day Saints work to shift the understanding of Ireland’s religious landscape away from a predominant focus on Roman Catholicism. They also challenge the Utah-based constructions of Mormonism in order to ensure their place in the Church’s powerful religious and cultural lineage.
The Challenges of Belonging in Modern Mormonism
Authors: O’brien Hazel
Published: January 2024

This chapter shows the relationship between the local and the global within Mormonism in the modern era, with a specific focus on Europe. It outlines Mormonism’s challenges in the transition to becoming a global religion, and emphasises that continuity and discontinuity from US Mormonism frames the position of the Church in a European context, and as a result comes to shape the experiences of European members. The chapter questions the extent to which the CoCJoLDS is willing to incorporate the contemporary diversity of European membership into its own perception of ‘Europe’, and argues that thus further marginalises migrant members and members of color in Europe who increasingly make up European membership.
They All Seem Very Nice but It’s a Bit Weird Isn’t It?
Authors: O’brien Hazel
Published: January 2024

How do those in Ireland outside of Irish Mormonism view the Church and its members, and how do these perceptions shape Irish Mormon identities? This chapter explores this question, showing that Church members in Ireland are regularly viewed with suspicion, curiosity, and contempt in an increasingly diverse and secular country. Ireland is struggling with its relationship to religion as the position of the dominant religion of Catholicism continues to adapt in Irish society, and Mormons in Ireland are acutely aware of how they are perceived as a result. The chapter illustrates a variety of strategies undertaken by Church members to navigate their complex position in Irish society, and suggests that marginalisation and stigmatisation shape the everyday experiences of Mormons in Ireland.
Heavenly Reunions and Progressive Reform
Authors: McCusker Kristine M.
Published: January 2024

The two dominant Protestant religions, the Southern Baptists and the Methodist Episcopal, South, underwent a significant transition in how they viewed life span. Before the discovery of various microorganisms, they believed that an early death was the result of sinful nature. After, they recognized that a longer life could lead to more saved souls who could be part of a heavenly reunion with other saved family members. Those who believed this became the foot soldiers of the Progressive Movement
Lonely Coffins
Authors: McCusker Kristine M.
Published: January 2024

World War I marked the first substantial federal incursion into the South’s poor health, with an expansive immunization and health program aimed at making soldiers fit for the battlefield. But the flu’s incubation in the very processes used to mobilize for war exposed the limits of that healthcare, creating conflicting poles as Southerners struggled to claim war deaths as honorable even as flu deaths exposed failures and incomplete medical breakthroughs.
Epilogue
Authors: McCusker Kristine M.
Published: January 2024

The suburban South has built good health into its landscape while accounting for a past where dying young was common. The Covid epidemic exposed the limits of this supposedly healthier landscape, however.
“Very Much the Boss”
Authors: Allen Gene
Published: January 2024

This chapter focuses on the changes to AP’s domestic news service that Cooper championed in the early 1920s and put into effect after becoming general manager in 1925. Driven by increasingly worrisome competition from AP’s main U.S. rival, United Press, Cooper moved away from AP’s traditional focus on narrowly factual (and often dull) coverage to allow fewer restrictions on writing style, a new emphasis on celebrity news, and the incorporation of soft features. He also centralized authority over AP’s far-flung operations in his own hands to an unprecedented degree.
The Shadow of War
Authors: Allen Gene
Published: January 2024

Between 1939 and 1941, Cooper continued to pay close attention to the operations of AP’s Berlin bureau. His policy of doing everything necessary to avoid the AP correspondent’s expulsion led him consistently to overstate the degree of freedom that international journalists in Germany exercised under the Nazis. In 1945 Cooper became embroiled in controversy after Edward Kennedy, AP’s Paris bureau chief, scooped the world by announcing the German surrender. AP’s president accepted the U.S. Army’s claim that Kennedy had violated an agreement to hold the news until it was officially released, forcing Cooper’s hand and leading to Kennedy’s dismissal.
The Crusade
Authors: Allen Gene
Published: January 2024

During the Second World War, Cooper launched a campaign to spread American-style press freedom around the world, seeking international agreements to limit the ability of national governments to control the activity of news agencies like AP. The campaign went along with AP’s ambitious postwar efforts to enlist new subscribers in Europe, South America, and Asia. Despite Cooper’s public rejection of government involvement in journalism, he worked closely with U.S. politicians and government officials to include free-press planks in the Democrats’ and Republicans’ 1944 election platforms and to ensure passage of a congressional resolution of support.
Advocacy
Authors: Shepperd Josh
Published: January 2024

Chapter 1 interrogates the strategic and personnel changes of early media reform groups during the New Deal. It examines how early media activists evolved from employing political lobby to focusing on the construction of a noncommercial media system after the Communications Act of 1934. In particular, the chapter focuses on how organizational decisions made by the trade groups Federal Radio Education Committee (FREC), National Committee for Education by Radio (NCER), National Advisory Council on Radio in Education (NACRE), and National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB) laid the groundwork for US public media. The chapter points to the influence of the US Office of Education, Carnegie Fund, and Rockefeller Foundation on decisions made by advocates.
Research and Development
Authors: Shepperd Josh
Published: January 2024

Chapter 4 reveals how mass communications research in part emerged as a government strategy to solve the problem of understanding student listeners. The FCC tasked the Federal Radio Education Committee (FREC) to develop strategies to interpret data, to make a case for set-aside frequencies for educational radio. FREC appointed a team comprised of Hadley Cantril, Paul Lazarsfeld, Frank Stanton, and Herta Herzog to examine the phenomenon of educational listening. Within the first two years of the Princeton Radio Research Project (PRRP), researchers discovered how to expand demographic categories connected to program reception, and reproducibly triangulate their results across geographic spaces. German philosopher Theodor Adorno was invited to the project to write policy language for the FCC, but was kicked off the project over methodological disagreements, opening a path for political economy of media to become the first qualitative communications research methodology.
Families Belong Together
Authors: Abrego Leisy J.
Published: January 2024

Drawing on years of oral interviews, this chapter examines the impact of U.S. foreign and domestic policies on immigrant families from Central America and Mexico and their transnational network of kin. In response to the Trump administration’s zero tolerance border policy that separated parents and children, without any plans for reunification, a social movement was born using the hashtag #FamiliesBelongTogether. While well-intentioned, this reaction missed the larger historical context: U.S. foreign policies and U.S. immigration policies have long separated spouses, parents, children, and other family members for lengthy periods of time, and have made migrants vulnerable in their neighborhoods and places of work.
“A Leak in the Ship of State”
Authors: Riddell William D.
Published: January 2024

This chapter looks at how the annexation of Hawai’i and the Philippines disrupted the “domestic” U.S. labor market by subverting the country’s racialized immigration regime. The Sailors Union of the Pacific and the International Seamen’s Union of America called this a “leak in the ship of state.” This chapter argues that the “leak” was actually part of a longer and less visible process to define and defend the boundaries of the U.S. labor market rooted in the West Coast shipping industry--a process that began a mere two years after the passage of the 1882 Exclusion Act. In 1898 this process moved from the periphery to the center of U.S. politics.
A Tale of Two Cities
Authors: Erlich Mark
Published: January 2024

The opening chapter provides an overview of how the nature of construction work has evolved, once providing security and a pathway to the middle class for those white males who made up the workforce in the first three-quarters of the twentieth century. The decline in building trades union influence over the past fifty years has led to the expansion of a non-union sector that has brought lower wages and unsafe working conditions, in particular for the growing group of undocumented immigrant workers. The chapter includes stories of individual workers whose lives have been affected—for better and worse—by their participation in the industry.
Snapshot of an Industry
Authors: Erlich Mark
Published: January 2024

The construction industry has a number of unique characteristics—its pivotal role in the broader economy, its decentralized character, high levels of employment, seasonality and boom-and-bust cycles, and the accompanying insecurity of the work. The absence of large employers that could dominate labor relations created a vacuum that was filled by the unions, which functioned as the equivalent of human resource departments for the industry by recruiting, training, and supplying the workforce. Small and medium-sized employers largely accepted the unions’ role, creating a less adversarial dynamic than in most other major industries.
The Wires
Authors: Secular Steven
Published: January 2024

This chapter highlights the evolution of the wired infrastructures that influence the global circulation of sport, tracing the path of physical cables from the NBA’s distribution hub in New Jersey to Endeavor Streaming in Plainview, New York, and Turner’s Techwood Campus in Atlanta, Georgia. While Turner manages the NBA’s domestic streaming distribution, Endeavor oversees the NBA’s international streaming operations for all countries but a handful. The maintenance of a unified international streaming platform highlights a global media ecosystem that encourages programming that will be most engaging for a multinational audience, as it does for Netflix and other global streamers. The chapter illuminates the vast network of forces that enable and constrain sports media content while demonstrating leagues such as the NBA as the ultimate controlling authority.
Introduction
Authors: Becker Marc , Power Margaret M. , Wood Tony , Zumoff Jacob A.
Published: January 2024

In the introduction to Transnational Communism across the Americas, the editors of this volume introduce the main themes that the authors engage in their chapters. The introduction begins with a discussion of the meaning of transnationalism and its inherent importance in understanding communist movements. Most examinations of communist movements are constructed around country-based studies, and the result is that they are understood in isolation from one another and from the broader communist movement in the Americas and beyond. This emphasis on the nation-state is ironic given that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels stressed international aspects of the communist movement. The introduction also provides a brief and broad overview of communism and summarizes the central contributions of the individual chapters to the theme of transnational communism across the Americas.
A Relationship Forged in Exile
Authors: Blanc Jacob
Published: January 2024

This chapter traces the back-and-forth history from 1927 to 1935 between Luís Carlos Prestes and the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB). Prestes’s experience in exile during this period shaped his own political trajectory and also his relationship with the PCB. As Prestes evolved from a liberal army officer into a Marxist, the PCB also had to navigate new policies directed by the Comintern in 1928 and 1935. These shifts created friction between the PCB and Prestes, who would later become its most prominent figure. Whereas most studies tend to treat the early history of Prestes and the PCB as an almost predetermined prologue to his eventual leadership position, this chapter uses a transnational perspective to chart a more nuanced view of Prestes’s trajectory. Transnational politics not only influenced the disjointed relationship between the man and the party—they made the relationship possible in the first place.
Quality of life in school teachers diagnosed with arterial hypertension in a hospital institution in Southern Lima
Authors: Asencios-Trujillo Lucia , Asencios-Trujillo Lida , La Rosa-Longobardi Carlos , Gallegos-Espinoza Djamila , Piñas-Rivera Livia
Published: January 2024

The quality of life in hypertensive people is vulnerable, since this medical condition affects the quality of people, therefore, the objective of the research is to determine the quality of life in school teachers diagnosed with hypertension in a hospital institution in South Lima. It is a quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional and non-experimental study, with a population of 116 hypertensive people who answered a questionnaire of sociodemographic data and the quality of life questionnaire for hypertensive patients. In their results, 10,3 % (n=12) of hypertensive people have a low quality of life, 31 % (n=36) have a medium quality of life and 58,6 % (n=68) have a high quality of life. In conclusion, health actions linked to the practice of healthy lifestyles and emotional health are essential.
Quality of life in university teachers diagnosed with hypertension treated in a hospital center in Callao
Authors: Asencios-Trujillo Lucia , Asencios-Trujillo Lida , La Rosa-Longobardi Carlos , Gallegos-Espinoza Djamila , Piñas-Rivera Livia
Published: January 2024

Arterial hypertension is a factor that decreases the quality of life, due to multiple factors in target organs and in its secondary effects of treatment, therefore the objective of the study was to determine the quality of life in university teachers diagnosed with hypertension treated in a hospital center in Callao. It is a quantitative, descriptive-cross-sectional study, made up of a total of 116 participants who answered a questionnaire of sociodemographic aspects and the measurement instrument for quality of life. In their results, 64,7 % (n=75) have a good quality of life, 25 % (n=29) have a fair quality of life and 10,3 % (n=12) have a poor quality of life. In conclusion, health strategies oriented to hypertensive patients with health promotion approach should be increased.
Formative evaluation in universities: a bibliometric review
Authors: Suárez Obregón Evert Segundo , Sánchez Rojas Belisario , Santander Rodriguez Kriss Vanessa , Alcayhuamán Gil Sonia , Osorio Meniz Patricia Demetria
Published: January 2024

The present study aimed to conduct a bibliometric analysis of formative assessment in universities between 2004 and 2023. The academic output was examined using bibliometric analysis as the fundamental method in this study. Scopus was used to select 364 papers for the study based on keywords in English (formative AND evaluation AND universities). In terms of percentage increase, the years 2014-2022, with 279 academic papers (76,6 % of the total), had the greatest impact on scientific production. The first country to stand out was Spain (19,7 %) and BMC Medical Education was the most popular publication source (n=13). Of all the authors, López-Pastor, V. was the one who obtained the most citations (65) for his three papers. Of the total number of papers, 99 % were scientific articles, of which 48 % belonged to the social sciences and 10 % to medicine. It can be concluded that formative evaluation in universities has made significant progress in terms of subject variety, authorship, sources and accessible resources. Thus, this bibliometric analysis could serve as a basis for future research.
Environmental impact of the páramo in Colombia: an approach from the FPEIR model
Authors: Lis-Gutiérrez Melissa , Lis-Gutiérrez Jenny Paola , Jiménez-Parra Jonathan , Henao-Rodríguez Carolina
Published: January 2024

The Colombian páramos offer various ecosystem services and are considered strategic ecosystems for the sustainable development of the country and its inhabitants. In recent decades, their impact in social, economic, and environmental terms has become more evident due to increasing anthropogenic intervention. This document aims to address how to apply the FPEIR model to identify the impacts on the Sumapaz and Santurbán páramos resulting from human activities. To achieve this goal, a qualitative methodology based on documentary review and analysis of specific cases identified in the Global Atlas of Environmental Justice, the Observatory of Mining Conflicts in Latin America, and the Observatory of Environmental Conflicts in Colombia was employed. The selected cases were analyzed using the DPSIR framework (Driving forces – Pressure – State – Impact – Response). This allowed establishing that the main threats in these ecosystems correspond to extractive activities that have caused imbalances, negatively affecting soil quality and water sources, rapid decline in biodiversity, and the medium and long-term quality of life of the inhabitants of these regions. Among the main shortcomings for páramo protection, the lack of economic resources, limited monitoring of management plans, heterogeneity in the implementation of conservation strategies, and a lack of clarity in the roles and responsibilities of involved actors are crucial issues affecting páramo conservation in Colombia. Overcoming these challenges requires a coordinated approach and appropriate allocation of resources to ensure the sustainability and integrity of these unique ecosystems.
Knowledge and attitudes about essential newborn care in women experiencing motherhood for the first time
Authors: Gonzales López Katherine Milagros , Bernedo-Moreira David Hugo , Gonzales López Jaime Natanael , Loayza-Apaza Yesenia Tania , Pacompía Quispe Héctor Fredy , Papanicolau Denegri Jorge Nicolás Alejandro
Published: January 2024

For new mothers, the arrival of a newborn to the family is one of the most exciting and rewarding experiences. However, it can also cause moments of uncertainty and anxiety, especially with respect to the basic things to give to the newborn; in this context, the present study aims to determine whether the knowledge and attitudes about essential newborn care in women experiencing motherhood for the first time are different. For this purpose, a quantitative approach, non-experimental design, cross-sectional and correlational level was used; the instrument was a questionnaire, whose reliability index was a Cronbach's Alpha 0,891; the sample consisted of 200 primiparous mothers from a public health institution and 200 primiparous mothers from a private health institution, during the year 2022. The results show a high level of knowledge of 94 % in the public institution and 96 % in the private institution, and a high level of attitude of 70 % in the public hospital and 76 % in the private institution. At the inferential level, the Mann-Whitney U test (z=11492) and (p=0,582) indicate that there are statistically significant differences between the level of knowledge; on the other hand, (z=31037) and (p=0,894) show that there are no statistically significant differences in the level of attitude. It is concluded that the level of knowledge of the new mothers is different, however, the level of attitude is similar to that of the first mothers.
Generational diversity and labor productivity, a pressing problem in Peruvian public institutions
Authors: Bernedo-Moreira David Hugo , Papanicolau Denegri Jorge Nicolás Alejandro , Loayza-Apaza Yesenia Tania , Pacompía Quispe Héctor Fredy , Gonzales López Jaime Natanael
Published: January 2024

Almost all organizations experience generational differences. Based on this premise, the objective of this study was to determine the relationship between generational diversity and labor productivity in the employees of a public institution in Peru. The research adopted a quantitative approach, being descriptive-correlational, with a sample of 147 employees. The results revealed a strong and perfect correlation (Rho=0,971) between generational diversity and labor productivity, with a value of p=0,000 in the context studied. The conclusion drawn is that labor productivity increases with quality generational diversity management, and vice versa. The formulation of strategies at the level of the Human Resources Management Administrative System to effectively address generational diversity is suggested.
COVID-19: Attitudes towards death and beliefs about the terminal patient in intensive care and medical clinic nursing professionals
Authors: Manzur Karen
Published: January 2024

Introduction: Death is a biological, psychological, and social process.
Objective: To analyze nurses' attitudes towards death and beliefs about the terminally ill, and then compare them according to the type of service, Intensive Care Unit, or Medical Clinic, in which they worked during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
Methods: Cross-sectional, correlational, and comparative study. The instrument measuring attitudes towards death is composed of 33 items and the classifications are avoidance, acceptance, fear, passage, departure and professional perspective, the degree of agreement is expressed from 1 to 5. The instrument that measures beliefs about the terminal patient has 15 items, the degree of agreement is expressed from 1 to 7. The data were analyzed using SPSS software.
Results: 78 professionals participated, no polarized attitudes towards death were expressed, but the one that obtained the highest score was acceptance. This correlated positively with the belief that both the family member and the patient should die at home (p=0,001) and the importance of receiving psychological and spiritual support (p=0,003). No differences were found between attitudes towards death and type of service, but ICU nurses expressed greater agreement than those of the medical clinic about the belief that it is best for both the family member and the patient to die at home (p=0,034).
Conclusions: Attitudes towards death and beliefs about the terminally ill are related.
Viewpoint: Returning glass to the supply chain
Authors: Coult Graham , Hartwell Rebecca
Published: January 2024

Graham Coult and Rebecca Hartwell examine the potential for greater recycling, or reuse, of glass and outline actions that the construction industry could take to advance this goal.
INCULCATING CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION: A PLAN OF ACTION FOR MUSLIM EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS
Authors:   Yildiz Technical University, Turkey, Açikgenç Alparslan
Published: January 2024

The real purpose of education is to inculcate students with a state of mind that is congenial for creativity and innovation. However, such is not the case in the Muslim world. The present article is an attempt to provide a new plan of action for creativity and innovation in the Muslim world by developing an epistemology defined as "the anatomy of human knowledge." The article begins with the present discussions of creativity and mnovation in the West and solutions that are primarily psychological offered. Then, an attempt is made to provide an alternative approach to the issue in the Muslim world. The author offers an epistemology as the ground of a new philosophy of education which may read to an educational system that fosters the critical attitude needed for acquiring such skills.
AL-WASAṬIYYAH (MODERATION): THE ALTERNATIVE EPISTEMOLOGY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY MUSLIM CRISES
Authors:   The University of the Gambia, Gambia, Jah Jr Omar
Published: January 2024

The 21st century Muslim world faces the crises of reciprocal extremism and radicalisation entertained by minorities in our midst and rooted in the Middle Eastern mindset of Zionism and Arab nationalism. Its outward manifestations are: (a) continuous bloodshed in the Muslim lands, and (b) deepening Muslim disunity. This article examines the Qurānic concept of wasać as an inward alternative of the mindset of extremism and a means of deradicalisation. Al-wasaṭiyyah is discussed within the framework of the Islamic epistemology of gradual sustenance as a method of its implementation. The article critically examines the term “al-wasaṭiyyah,” traces the Qurānic injunctions that make up its framework and applies its values to the 21st century “crises.”
ISLAMICA, TURCICA AND PSEUDO-ISLAMICA IN THE NORTH EASTERN EUROPEAN LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES, MUSEUMS AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Authors: Kopanski Ataullah Bogdan
Published: January 2024

Hundreds of rare Muslim manuscripts written in Arabic, Turkic, Farsi and Slavonic languages are preserved in the Czech, Slovakian, Polish, Belorussian, Lithuanian, and Scandinavian state or private collections. Such collections are still arca incognita for the absolute majority of Muslim scholars from non-European countries. The purpose of this survey is to give elementary information on the location of these Islamic manuscripts in the Baltic and Central European collections and their general contents for historians, archivists and librarians of the Islamic civilisation. This survey is focused on two genres of Muslim literature—the unique kitab and khamails or manuscripts written in the Polish or Belorussian languages using Arabic script, and the diplomatic correspondences between the Islamic states (the Osmanli Sultanate, the Golden Horde and the Crimean Khanate) and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on the problem of translations of the QurʾĀn into the vernacular languages of the Baltic peoples. This survey has cited useful secondary literature as well as catalagoues of discussed Islamic manuscripts written in the Polish, Byelorussian, Lithuanian, Russian, Czech, Slovakian, German, French, and Swedish languages which guide precisely to the primary sources of Islamic culture in the Baltic lands.
THE FUTURE OF ISLAMIC FINANCE: A REFLECTION BASED ON MAQĀṢID AL-SHARĪʿAH
Authors:   International Shariʿah Research Academy for Islamic Finance (ISRA), Malaysia, Laldin Mohamad Akram , Furqani Hafas ,   International Shariʿah Research Academy for Islamic Finance (ISRA), Malaysia
Published: January 2024

The timely emergence of Islamic finance as a system of thought and practice amidst world crisis and uncertain proposed solutions may offer a coherent perspective for understanding real economic problems and alternatives to the very foundations of how economics and finance should be managed to actualise human prosperity. Despite its impressive development, the question whether Islamic finance is on the right track to realise the hopes pinned on it at the time of its initial establishment currently emerges. This article attempts to reflect on the nature of the development of Islamic finance, as well as its achievement and future direction. For Islamic finance to really progress, it should be developed with the agenda of realising the objectives of Sharīʿah (Maqāṣid al-Sharīʿah) as well as its full potential as a system, not as a stopgap means of surviving the crisis, nor as a legal (ḥalāl) means in financial dealings that satisfy the minimum standard of legal requirements. Furthermore, it should provide guidelines for managing a good economy, stimulating growth and development, realising socio-economic justice, and promoting employment and stability.
FINANCIAL LITERACY EDUCATION MODULE FOR THE MUSLIM UMMAH: A PRELIMINARY STUDY
Authors:   Institute of Islamic Understanding Malaysia (IKIM), Malaysia, Hashim Mohamad Azhar
Published: January 2024

The economic and financial environment of today and the future requires a high level of financial literacy to make good financial decisions in daily life. Making bad financial decisions may land one intofinancial distress, in particular a heavy debt burden, which may lead to other adverse social implications. Thus, Financial Literacy Education (FLE) has been introduced as an effort to inculcate good financial behaviour in the recent decade. This paper is a preliminary effort in developing FLE for the Muslim ummah. It aims at finding Islamic teachings of good financial behaviour by highlighting selected Qurʾānic verses on Islamic values in promoting good financial behaviour which can be incorporated into the contemporary FLE modules. Various literatures on financial literacy and good financial behaviour as understood today are analysed to find out if such aspects are cited in the Qurʾān. The analyses show that several Qurʾānic verses are relevant and applicable to the contemporary context of good financial behaviour and financial literacy. With this, the paper recommends that good financial behaviour be incorporated in the curriculum of Islamic Religious Education.