bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Spatial Influence of Urban Areas on Surface Water Loss Across the Contiguous United States
Authors: Palazzoli Irene , Montanari Alberto , Ceola Serena
Published: September 2022

Surface water sustains freshwater ecosystems by preserving the integrity of their habitats and supplies water to many anthropogenic sectors. However, human activities impact surface water bodies and determine a progressive reduction of their extent. In particular, the process of urbanization due to urban population growth is expected to produce an increase of the exploitation of surface water in the surroundings of cities.

Here, we examine the driving role of urban areas in the spatial distribution of surface water loss across river basins of the contiguous United States (CONUS) using remote sensing data. We define surface water loss as any conversion from surface water to land that occurred between 1984 and 2018 and we compute the frequency of these losses as a function of distance from urban areas. We find that in all the rivers basins of the CONUS surface water loss is more intense around cities and declines as the distance from human settlements increases. Therefore, we define a distance-decay model that follows a truncated exponential probability distribution which is able to reproduce the observed decreasing trend, proving that urban areas cause an increasing stress on surface water resources in the proximity of human settlements. Moreover, we observe that the decrease in surface water loss is faster in river basins with larger urban agglomerations, indicating that the influence of urban areas on the spatial distribution of surface water loss increases as the extent of urban areas increases as well.

Finally, we investigate the role played by climate in the spatial interaction between urban areas and surface water losses and we notice that different pattern of exponential decay of surface water loss are found across the main climatic regions of the CONUS. Specifically, in areas with temperate and continental climate the presence of urban areas determines local and concentrated surface water losses, while losses are more distributed and reach greater distances in arid regions.
Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) and Hydrological Models to Simulate Streamflow in a context of climate change: Case of Davo river basin in Côte d’Ivoire
Authors: Kouamé Yao Morton , Meledje N'diaye Edwige Hermann , Soro Tanina Idrissa , Soro Gneneyougo Emile , Kombyla Destyle Van , Kouassi Kouakou Lazare , Goula Bi Tié Albert , Paturel Jean Emmanuel , Diedhiou Arona , Amoussou Ernest
Published: September 2022

The streamflow is important for planning et decision-making of development activities  related to water resource. The hydrological mathematical models are frequently used to simulate the transformation of rainfall into streamflow as well as Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs. In order to contribute to the establishment of an adequate framework for water resource management in the Davo river basin, this study presents an intercomparison between streamflow estimations from conventional hydrological modelling and ANN analysis. The Davo River basin is located in the southwestern forest of Côte d'Ivoire. The hydrological models used are the HEC-HMS model (Hydrologic Engineering Center-Hydrologic Modeling System) and the GR4J model (Rural Engineering with four daily parameters), while the data-driven ANN model is developed in MATLAB. The three tools receive the same data and their parameters are calibrated using the same objective functions. The quality of the simulations is measured in the control phase using several statistical criteria. For the assesment of the impacts of climate change on hydrological regime of the Davo river basin, the AFRICA-CORDEX (Coordinated Downscaling Experiment for Africa) data under two RCP (representative concentration pathway) scenarios   RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 are integrated in the three tools of modelling. The approach developed in this study allows a considerable improvement of the outils performances developed in calibration and validation. In addition, the results of the current study provide valuable feedback for water resources’ planners in Côte d’Ivoire and the developing regions.

Keywords: Climate change, Streamflow, Artificial Neural Networks, HEC-HMS, GR4J, Davo river basin, Côte d’Ivoire
The 100 Plastic Rivers Programme – A Participatory Approach to Analysing Global River Microplastic Pollution 
Authors: Krause Stefan , Nel Holly , Schneidewind Uwe , Lynch Iseult , Sambrook Smith Greg , Drummond Jen , Gomez-Velez Jesus
Published: September 2022

Increasing levels of mismanagement of plastic waste are causing concern about plastic pollution of freshwater ecosystems globally. In particular, the magnitude, sources, spatial distributions, and time scales of microplastic (particles <5mm in size) and how they are transported, transformed and potentially accumulated in river catchments are still poorly understood. Emerging field-based evidence is often hard or impossible to compare due to a wide range of different field sampling, particle extraction and lab analytical techniques for analysis being used. Similarly, mathematical models that start predicting microplastic fate and transport from small (plot) to large (river basin) and even global scales are based on different source term assumptions and representations of particle transport mechanisms, and therefore frequently don't agree with each other or field observations. 

We here present the first results of a participatory approach adopted in the global 100 Plastic Rivers Programme that has over the last 3 years attempted to develop a first global baseline of microplastic pollution in rivers and their catchments across the world, using standardised sampling, extraction, and analysis protocols. Findings of global riverine microplastic contamination levels with identified spatial patterns and hotspots of microplastic pollution are complemented with detailed observations of the longitudinal evolution of microplastic concentrations along selected large river systems. The findings of our global and local sampling campaigns are compared with process-based mechanistic local and global microplastic fate and transport models. Our results reveal the existence of distinct spatial patterns of microplastic pollution in streambed sediments that in many cases can not only be related to suspected pollution sources and their time-variant contributions but are even more so affected by hydrodynamic controls on microplastic transport, deposition, and resuspension as well as the advective forcing of in particular smallest microplastic fractions into streambed sediments by hyporheic exchange flow processes. Our analyses also reveal that streambed sediments represent hotspots of microplastic accumulation where large quantities of these emerging pollutants can be stored for a long time and create a pollution legacy for centuries to come. Our results demonstrate the potential of participatory approaches to overcome challenges in global sampling and comparative analyses.
Extending calibration sequences to include multi-year drought is not sufficient to train models for future drier climate
Authors: Trotter Luca , Saft Margarita , Peel Murray , Fowler Keirnan
Published: September 2022

Hydrological models’ parameters do not transfer well between periods with different climatic conditions; particularly when parameters calibrated on a wetter climate are used to project streamflow during a drier period. Many Mediterranean and semi-arid regions worldwide experienced multi-annual, persistent drought conditions in recent decades, which exposed these limitations of hydrological models and their most common calibration methods. Additionally, projections indicating a likely warmer and drier future in these regions render this issue particularly disquieting, especially as models tend to overestimate water availability during dry periods.

In south-eastern Australia, the Millennium drought (ca. 1997­–2009) called attention to this issue due to its effects on the hydrological behaviour of many catchments. Specifically, models calibrated on pre-drought conditions routinely overestimate streamflow when forced with drought data. However, in operational simulation, it has been theorised that models calibrated on long timeseries that include the Millennium drought will be able to perform well under a future drier climate.

We tested this hypothesis by studying the performance of five conceptual rainfall-runoff models in 155 catchments in the southern Australian state of Victoria. We calibrated the models on different periods, some including the drought and post-drought themselves, and compare the performance across parameter sets during and after the drought. We observe that naively extending calibration sequences to include the drought did not significantly improve model performance across these catchments, neither during the drought itself nor, in most cases, in the decade after the drought. Further adding the post-drought period also provided very limited improvement in this period and is unlikely to make any operational difference, despite drought and post-drought making up at least 30% of the calibration sequence.

These results highlight the importance of the choice of data and method used for calibrating hydrological models under transient climate and suggest that more sophisticated calibration methods are needed in this context. These include calibration with explicit and distinct treatment of different climate regimes (e.g. using multi-objective optimisers). However, where changes in climate triggers drastic shifts in catchment behaviour, novel and more adaptable model structures may be necessary to confidently project streamflow under future climate.
Extending streamgauging thanks to low-cost velocity-head rods
Authors: Le Coz Jérôme , Lagouy Mickaël , Pernot Francis , Buffet Alexis , Berni Céline
Published: September 2022

Hydrological data are limited spatially and temporally due to the limited resources of national and local hydrological services. The lack of streamflow data may be critical in some regions of the world, headwater or urban catchments, or ephemeral streams for instance. Low-cost, easy-to-operate streamgauging techniques may help involve less specialized operators, including professionals or simple citizens, to extend the range of streamflow observations. The velocity-head rod has been revisited since the beginning of this century and proves to be an efficient low-cost tool for discharge measurements in wadable streams with velocity greater than 20 cm/s over most of the cross-section. We have validated the velocity rating of the literature and discharge measurements within 10% of the reference. We have also brought a number of practical improvements (while keeping the manufacturing cost around 100€), proposed an estimation of velocity measurement uncertainties, and issued a field procedure and spreadsheet for velocity and flow measurements. We have trained and helped operators from diverse backgrounds in different countries. The technique is quick and easy but possible operator effects must be minimized. The velocity-head rod is useful for rapid discharge estimation, teaching or demonstration, citizen-science programmes and cooperation with resource-limited services.
PERBEDAAN DOSIS PUPUK ORGANIK CAIR DAN JENIS KLON RATOON 1 TERHADAP PERTUMBUHAN TANAMAN TEBU (Saccharum officinarum (L)) DI KECAMATAN KEBOMAS - GRESIK
Authors: Wahyudi Achmad Hafidh , Budi Setyo , Redjeki Endah Sri
Published: September 2022

Tanaman tebu (Saccharum officinarum (L)) merupakan bahan baku industri gula putih. Salah satu faktor penurunan produktifitas gula yaitu tingkat kesuburan lahan yang terus menurun, yang disebabkan oleh pertanian modern lebih menekankan pada penggunaan pupuk anorganik. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh bahan organik terhadap pertumbuhan tanaman tebu. Penelitian ini dilaksanakan di Kebun Percobaan Fakultas Pertanian UMG pada bulan Maret - Juni 2022. Rancangan percobaan menggunakan split plot (rancang petak terbagi) dengan dua faktor. Faktor pertama adalah klon (V) yaitu V1 (klon SB03), V2 (klon SB19) dan V3 (klon SB33).  Faktor  ke dua yakni dosis pupuk organik cair guano terdiri dari 3 taraf yaitu P1 (kontrol), P2 (pupuk guano cair 15 ml per 15 liter air) dan P3 (pupuk guano cair 30 ml per 15 liter air). Masing-masing diulang empat kali sehingga terdapat 36 kombinasi perlakuan. Variabel pertumbuhan yang diukur yaitu tinggi tanaman, jumlah daun, jumlah anakan dan diameter batang. Analisis data mengunakan Anova Uji F. Jika terdapat beda nyata maka dilanjutkan dengan DMRT 5%. Selanjutntya dilakukan uji regresi (korelasi), dan uji heritabilitas,. Hasil penelitian tidak menunjukan perbedaan nyata pada interaksi. Perlakuan pupuk menunjukan perbedaan tidak nyata pada semua variabel pengamatan. Pada perlakuan jenis klon menunjukan perbedaan nyata pada umur 18 MSK (minggu setelah kepras) pada variabel tinggi tanaman dan diameter batang serta pada variabel daun pada umur 12 dan 14 MSK.
Self-supervised human semantic parsing for video-based person re-identification
Authors: Wu Wei , Liu Jiawei ,   School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, China
Published: September 2022

Video-based person re-identification is an important research topic in computer vision that entails associating a pedestrian’s identity with non-overlapping cameras. It suffers from severe temporal appearance misalignment and visual ambiguity problems. We propose a novel self-supervised human semantic parsing approach (SS-HSP) for video-based person re-identification in this work. It employs self-supervised learning to adaptively segment the human body at pixel-level by estimating motion information of each body part between consecutive frames and explores complementary temporal relations for pursuing reinforced appearance and motion representations. Specifically, a semantic segmentation network within SS-HSP is designed, which exploits self-supervised learning by constructing a pretext task of predicting future frames. The network learns precise human semantic parsing together with the motion field of each body part between consecutive frames, which permits the reconstruction of future frames with the aid of several customized loss functions. Local aligned features of body parts are obtained according to the estimated human parsing. Moreover, an aggregation network is proposed to explore the correlation information across video frames for refining the appearance and motion representations. Extensive experiments on two video datasets have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
Perancangan Sistem Informasi Registrasi Pasien Berbasis Web Di Puskesmas Tumbuan Kabupaten Seluma Tahun 2022
Authors: Arifin Ismail , Rahma Tita Qaka , Elly Nur , Harmanto Deno
Published: September 2022

Perkembangan teknologi informasi saat ini melaju sangat pesat dan cepat menyebar ke berbagai bidang salah satunya dibidang kesehatan.Perkembangan teknologi informasi sangat dirasakan pada bidang kesehatan khususnya Pukesmas. Berdasarkan PERMENKES Nomor 31 Tahun (2019) tentang Sistem Informasi, Puskesmas harus menerapkan Sistem Informasi untuk membantu proses pengambilan keputusan dalam melaksanakan manajemen Puskesmas untuk mencapai sasaran kegiatannya.Untuk kegiatan registrasi & pelaporan di Puskesmas tumbuan sejauh ini masih dilakukan secara manual menggunakan buku register.Hal ini menyebabkan data yg dikumpulkan tidak akurat, rentan terjadi kehilangan data, duplikasi data serta dalam pelaporannya membutuhkan waktu yang lama. Untuk mengatasi masalah tersebut, akan dikembangkan sebuah sistem informasi elektronik supaya beban pekerjaan petugas akan berkurang dan tata cara pendataan pasien menjadi lebih baik, tidak memakan waktu untuk pencarian dan perekapan data, serta pelaporan bisa lebih cepat untuk dikerjakan dan disampaikan kepada pihak yang terkait. Adapun metode yang digunakan untuk membuat sistem ini menggunakan visual basic dan database MySql serta menggunakan metode pengembangan DFD (data flow diagram). Dalam penelitian ini menghasilkan prototype sistem informasi puskesmas yang meliputi menu login, menu input data petugas, registrasi pasien dan menu laporan. Sebaiknya Puskesmas Tumbuan mempertimbangkan hasil rancangan SIMPUS yang dibuat agar nanti bisa segera diimplementasikan untuk menunjang kegiatan registrasi.
THE VIOLENCE OF CASTE AND SEXUALITY: P. SIVAKAMI
Authors: KIRAN KESHAVAMURTHY
Published: September 2022

The Tamil writer P. Sivakami’s sequential novels The Grip of Change (Pazhaiyana Kalithalum, 1989) and Gowri: Author’s Notes (Gowri: Aasiriyar Kurippu, 1999) were written in the wake of the Bodi caste riots in Tamil Nadu between Pallars (a Dalit caste group) and Thevars. Dalits mobilised themselves around a Dalit leader when she was raped and killed by upper caste landlords for demanding higher wages. At a protest meeting, a Dalit political leader is reported to have said, “What would happen if all Dalit men were to marry upper caste women?” This led to a violent backlash resulting in the loss of Dalit lives and property. The reasons for raping the Dalit leader lay in suppressing a Dalit woman who was overstepping her subordinate status by publicly demanding higher wages. Thus caste functioned in markedly gendered ways in public spaces.

As a response to this event, Sivakami’s novels focused on the body of the Dalit woman as a fictional and rhetorical figure for the fraught relationship between caste, gender and sexuality. The novel centers on the exploited and supposedly violable body of the Dalit woman, which is inscribed with inter-caste struggles for power even as it is constituted as a site of resistance. Over the course of the narratives, it becomes impossible to articulate caste and gender and sexuality at once. Caste turns out to be the overarching structure that regulates gender and sexuality primarily through the body of the (Dalit) woman. There is no space in this structure to articulate questions of sexual violence, that are clearly elided by caste violence, which subordinates the Dalit woman to the male interests of the Dalit community. The second novel is the author’s reflection on the possibility of re-imagining the inter-sectionalities between caste, gender and sexuality.
EXPRESSING BODY, EXPERIENCE OF EMOTIONS
Authors: B. HARIHARAN
Published: September 2022

This paper argues that in naatyam (dramatics) the actor’s body produces aesthetic cadence that peaks as emotional experience for the sahrudaya. The affect that a Kathakali performance produces is a state of sublimity of the mind, unattached to the cares of the world. It is the experience of supreme bliss or Ānanda. There is no emptying of emotions on the stage with the words spoken to which the audience might relate. This paper approaches the issue with reference to Kathakali, Kerala’s own theatre.

 

Even as there is a lot of theorising that emerges about the emotive content and communication in theatre, specific emphasis on the body of the actor, modulating in relation to the many accompaniments, merits a closer understanding. Emotions take form in the varying intensities of those modulations that vibrate in relation to the timbre of the dominant aesthetic state the actor’s body establishes.

 

The paper theorises the body of the actor and the emotional affects and discusses the implications of the rigorous training that prepares the body of the actor. To develop the proposed argument the paper discusses in some detail the tradition of the training of the actor in Kathakali and then examines the complexities involved in the productions with special reference to Kottayam Tampuran’s Kirmeeravadhom, Balakavi Ramasastrikal’s Banayudham and P. Venugopalan’s Krishnaleela.
HEREDITY ABANDONED, AND KANNAGI'S COURAGEOUSDECISION TO ACT IN SPECIAL DRAMA
Authors: SUSAN SEIZER
Published: September 2022

Women artists have performed in the Tamil theatre genre known as Special Drama since the early twentieth century, though they have been highly stigmatized for their participation. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with Special Drama artists in the early 1990s, I returned in 2014- 2015 to conduct a follow- up study on the subsequent generations of drama family lineages. I became increasingly concerned – largely because this proved a primary concern of the artists themselves – with problems posed by the lack of any established route for the cultural transmission of knowledge of this field. In this essay I document one hereditary acting family lineage in which the stigma on stage actresses has resulted in a silencing of family history. I discuss Special Drama artists’ ideas for how to encourage subsequent generations to take up this profession, and how my own presence and support contributed to their efforts to repatriate the artistic tradition. I focus specifically on the courageous decision of one young woman, a member of the fifth generation in the hereditary acting lineage I document, to buck the trend of her generation and become a dramatic Heroine even in the face of the globalizing social and economic climate of contemporary India.
STAGING GENDER IN RAMLILA OF RAMNAGAR
Authors: ANITA SINGH
Published: September 2022

Interrogation of gendered representations proves particularly salient in Ramlila, (literally “Rama’s play”) which is a performance of the Ramayana epic in a series of scenes that include song, narration, recital and dialogue. This paper will look at gender in performance and gender as performance in the context of Ramlila. The most recent emphasis in feminist literary theory has been upon the concept of "performativity" to analyze the processes of the formation of gender identity. This essay is informed by a series of issues raised by the current gender theories in understanding the largely conservative and preservation-oriented practice of the Varanasi/ Ramnagar Ramlila.
BETWEEN FEMINISM AND ISLAM:FATIMA MERNISSI AND HER LEGACY
Authors: RAJA RHOUNI
Published: September 2022

Fatima Mernissi (1940 - 2015) was a feminist scholar and activist without equal in the Arab World. Her work was concerned with identifying and critiquing the different structures that intersect to oppress women, ranging from colonialism, Islam (or the patriarchal interpretation of Islam), to capitalist development. But what has most retained the attention of her admirers and critics alike is her work on Islam and women’s rights. The present paper focuses on this particular aspect of her work, distinguishing between two moments: a secularist feminist moment and an Islamic feminist moment. This feature makes Mernissi’s work particularly interesting in understanding the nature and development of feminism in the region as it epitomises the two main trends in Arab feminism. In exploring these two trends in Mernissi’s feminist trajectory, the paper explains both the major factors behind each feminist position as well as the major reactions each triggered. The paper particularly focuses on the strength of Islamic feminism and ends with a discussion of Mernissi’s legacy in Morocco.
FATIMA MERNISSI: A COMPLEX TRAJECTORY
Authors: AMINA WADUD
Published: September 2022

Combining memory and reflection, in this essay I speak of the complex trajectory of Fatima Mernissi. I do this through evoking the parallel, yet distinctive, trajectories of Fatima and myself on the path of gender jihad from the late twentieth century into the twenty-first century in our different global locations. Though coming from different starting points, our visions for gender justice and equality merged.
HOW ULAMA IN INDIA PERPETUATE MALE HEGEMONY IN THE NAME OF ISLAM
Authors: ZAKIA SOMAN AND NOORJEHAN NIAZ
Published: September 2022

This article attacks the perpetuation of patriarchal controls over women in the name of Islam by ulama and men at large, showing how women who are organising through the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan are fighting back. The article appeared in Counter Currents on 2 March 2016.
ROOTS AND ROUTES OF SECULAR & ISLAMIC FEMINISMS IN INDONESIA
Authors: GADIS ARIVIA
Published: September 2022

With the words quoted below, Gadis Arivia recalled the start of her own and other women’s feminist activism in Indonesia two decades ago, opening an interview on August 5, 2016 with Margot Badran on women’s activism broadly and on secular and Islamic feminisms in Indonesia and the spirit of mutuality and inclusivity.
THE OTHER WITHIN: MUSLIM RIGHTS WARRIOR IN MALAYSIA
Authors: AZZA BASARUDIN
Published: September 2022

In this paper, I reflect on debates about Islams and feminisms by re-centering a class-based analysis of women’s activism and gender politics and re-emphasising the local self-positioning of women activists who are committed to Muslim women’s movements for self-determination and social justice. I do so by considering the lived realities of working class Malay Muslim women activists in urban Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, who suggest that normative understandings of feminist ideals and feminist activists fail to capture the way they conceive of and do activism specific to their class location and local context. I argue that these activists’ contextualised self-positioning opens up a more meaningful space to rethink the designations “Muslim feminist” or “Islamic feminist,” often associated with women in communities of Muslims who are engaging in political struggles to reintegrate understandings of Islam with contemporary conceptions of justice and equality.
BETWEEN AWARENESS AND ACTIVISM: GENDER AND ISLAM IN SOUTH AFRICA
Authors: FARHANA ISMAIL
Published: September 2022

Interview with Farhana Ismail, MYM Gender Desk member, at the moment when efforts were being made to re-invigorate the Gender Desk, by Margot Badran, Johannesburg, August 8, 2002.
From Sonnet to Ghazal: The Poetic Muse of Jeet Thayil
Authors: S. DEVIKA
Published: September 2022

The sonnet and the ghazal are two traditional forms of poetry that are grounded in thematic and musical structural unity. In contemporary times, both forms have undergone alterations to keep with the demands of the times, freeing themselves from the stringent generic norms, to expand the horizon, so to speak, both in subject matter and structure. For Jeet Thayil, poet, musician, performer-poet, novelist, the fascination for the sonnet and the ghazal seems to derive as much from the predominant musical aspects in these forms as from their strangely liberating rigidities. This paper analyses the style and content of select sonnets and ghazals from Jeet Thayil’s Collected Poems, to comment on the adaptability of the form to reinforce nuances of emotion.
“A Journey with no Return”: Kamala Das and the Poetic Manifesto of Flânerie
Authors: SWETHA ANTONY
Published: September 2022

Kamala Das has carved a unique space for herself within Indian Writings in English with a career spanning almost six decades. By the time her first collection of poetry Summer in Calcutta (1965) was published she was already a name to reckon with. Being nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1984 did catapult her to fame on the global front and consequently her oeuvre has further gone on to impact the polemics surrounding the understanding of what constitutes world/contemporary literature. This paper engages with the evolution in the critical approaches towards understanding her poetry in English beginning with how her poetry was perceived as an epitome of Modernism within the discourse of Postcolonialism and going on to contextualise the potential of her poetry to engage with the evolving critical discourses of Geocriticism. The focus will be on redefining her literary identity by imbibing the nuances associated with the notion of flânerie. Etymologically, it implies aimless wandering, but as a critical theoretical concept it engages with the contours of belonging by questioning the discursive practices of gender that comes into play in the accessibility of spaces.
Mulligatawny Dreams: Encountering the No-Man’s Land Between the Mother Tongue and Post-Colonial Language
Authors: Y SAMRA FUAD
Published: September 2022

Decolonization does not end with the colonizing power being physically removed from the colonized nation. Centuries of cultural hegemony wreaks havoc on the fabric of a state to the point of being unrecognizable from its previous state of existence. The battle to reclaim a national identity post colonization is not an easy one, especially when it concerns a multicultural, multilingual, state like India. One of the most obvious manifestations of deliberate anti-colonial actions is the rejection of colonial rules of language. This becomes especially interesting when the said language is now the global lingua franca, inevitable to functioning in an increasingly globalized world.

 

Post-colonial writers offer much in the activism against colonial dictates of language. This paper looks at how a colonial language, one that is dominant in a post-colonial society, is encountered by writers. The paper focuses on the poetry of Meena Kandasamy in general as an anti-colonial , language-specific , dynamic narrative tool and specifically on the poem “Mulligatawny Dreams” . Her language deliberately subverts English language rules;  often foregoing punctuation, using words from her native Tamil without a footnote or an appendix, culturally specific references etc. All of these deliberate actions making a statement inviting the reader to research and make the effort to learn and understand the poetry and its references, much like the rest of the world and especially Indians have been taught through the centuries to understand British cultural references and history forsaking our own.
Contextualizing Fragmentation: An Analytic Study of Trauma Theory
Authors: Raj Sree M.S
Published: September 2022

This article attempts to elucidate the experience of fragmentation from the perspective of trauma studies, an offshoot of psychology. This study originates as an inquiry into psychic trauma, a phenomenon that one cannot locate exclusively within the domain of the cultural, historical, and the personal, but at the crossroads between these realms. Trauma studies came to prominence in the early 1990s and moved away from medicine and psychiatry during the past half-decade. Trauma theory belongs to the tradition of post structuralism.Post structuralism demanded a new way of thinking about how events in the past return to haunt the present.Trauma theory, adhering to Post structuralism is analytical and speculative and attempts to work out what is involved in experiencing traumatic events, in its representation and the like. Trauma theory suggests ways of re-conceptualizing decisive directions in critical theory. It focuses on the rhetoric of poststructuralist and postmodern theories and their emphasis on decentering,  fragmentation, the  sublime  and apocalyptic and seeks to explore  the relation  they  have  to  the  traumatic historical events  as well as personal events.Thus trauma theory serves as a tool to analyze and resituate the experience of holocaust and foreground the aftermath of traumatic events.More over trauma narratives demand a new mode of reading and critical thinking. Current trauma theory, which draws heavily on nineteenth and twentieth-century psychoanalytic theories, emphasizes trauma as a psychic wounding, an encounter of the mind with violence and the crisis of meaning.
‘Geist’ in the Shell: The Erasure of Japanese Identity in select Hollywood Films
Authors: Gowri Meenakshi S R
Published: September 2022

Hollywood Cinema forms the core of American soft power. It is the expression of America’s political, ideological, and cultural aims. It is also a medium of propagation of the ideas of American Orientalism which shaped the perception of Eastern culture and identity. This paper discusses the myriad elements of American Orientalist ideas about Japan in Hollywood Cinema, and the various techniques used to erase Japanese representation, particularly in the movie, ‘Ghost in the Shell’.
Fanning Flames/Flaming Fans: Theorising Fanfiction
Authors: Sreya Miriam Shaji
Published: September 2022

Fanfiction is an enormously popular genre with a niche audience. And this niche is growing bigger and wider as more and more people join fan communities. These communities establish their virtual presence through fan labor, and fanfiction is a major contributor to the influence that a fandom constructs for itself.Juxtaposing this phenomenon with the rise of the digitization of literary spaces opens up the discourse about the evolution of literary spaces and genres. Fanfiction is the new item on the agenda that is garnering attention. Although quite a vast field of study, this paper is concerned with a uniform taxonomy and theory of Fanfiction.
SMARTHAVICHARAM
Authors: ROHINI NAIR.
Published: September 2022

This is the translation of an article written by Sri Punnassery Nampi Neelakanta Sarma and summarised by his biographer K.P. Narayanapisharodi. It was originally published in the journal Vijnanachintamani (Meenam 8, 1080). The author criticizes the practice of Smarthavicharam.
SMARTHAVICHARAM: FROM THE RECORDS
Authors: ALPHONSA C.A.
Published: September 2022

The chastity trial of Thathri in 1905 stands out not only for the staggering number of men accused but also because for the first time a chance to defend themselves was granted to those accused.  The new system bodies forth the intersecting spaces of feudal/ colonial logics and jurisprudential systems. The following documents would bear testimony to the same.
Women’s History: An Overview of Early Malayalam Periodicals for Women
Authors: Teena Antony
Published: September 2022

‘Pennezhuthu’ (feminist writing or écriture feminine) entered common parlance in Kerala from the introduction written by the Malayalam poet cum critic Satchidanandan for a collection of short stories by writer and activist, Sarah Joseph. The term came to be used to condemn feminist writings in general. The original term, écriture feminine, was used by Helene Cixous suggesting that writings by women writers tend to show up the differences in women’s world that undermine the phallogocentric logic and utilise free and flowing styles like the stream of consciousness. It was a means of escape for women or an antithesis to masculine writing. However, pennezhuthu does not differentiate among different types of women’s writing, like feminine writing, feminist writing, or écriture feminine. The world we are allowed to see through women’s periodicals in Malayalam is vivacious, fascinating and fraught with tensions. The article undertakes an in-depth historical reading of early Malayalam periodicals for women in tandem with the socio-cultural changes in Kerala society and women’s history.
Negotiating the Stage and the World: The Life Writings of BinodiniDasi.
Authors: Bose Paromita
Published: September 2022

At a time when it was not ‘respectable’ for women to act on a public stage, BinodiniDasi’s performances created quite a stir. Not only was she of the first actors on the Bengali stage, she was also one of the finest. Her autobiographies, Amar Katha (My Story) and Amar AbhinetriJibon (My Life as an Actress) were published in 1910 and 1924/25 respectively. The necessity for her chronicle her life, arose out of her need for acceptance, wherein she constantly judged herself against a prevalent societal value system. Dasi was born into a house of prostitutes and her identity had always haunted her, even in the public sphere, in spite of her success. Her autobiographies have an overarching tone of self-pity. Her desire to fit in, into a society that had set norms of “propriety”, in fact, pushes her to look for redemption, which comes through, with the intervention of an almost saint like figure, Ramakrishna Paramhansa, who redeems her of all her sins. She ceases to be a ‘patita’, or the fallen one. However, one cannot ignore the fact that, Binodini writes her autobiographies because she is famous. The foreknowledge of the fact that her autobiographies will be accepted went hand in hand with her popularity, and she negotiates the power of this popularity alongside, the society’s strict value system, to write an account of her life, located amidst the politics of class, gender, identity, the public and the private, purity/propriety and the ‘home’ and the ‘world’. This paper will attempt to read/analyse these negotiations, within the larger context of writing an autobiography.
Interpreting Human Life through the Non-Human: Study of select works of Artists and Writers on Writing Life
Authors: Dutta Sindhura
Published: September 2022

Human interpretation of life had become so anthropocentric by the end of modernism that an eco-centric interpretation of the same was inevitable which led to proliferating works of non-human narratives to understand human life. Artists and writers like Woolf, Gogh and Frost were philosophers who took to interpreting image of insects, each having different essences of its own. For example Van Gogh’s Giant Peacock Moth is part of the butterfly series and so the moth cannot be interpreted individually but as a collective dissection of the winged insects that wholly symbolize transformations of human beings. Whereas Virginia Woolf’s The Death of the Moth philosophize the inevitability of life and death in which the moth acts as a tool to understand ontological significance of being a human. They are essentially writing about the significance of human life through the life of an insect but at the same time critically placing us into the crux of knowledge about human ontology that forms a design of life as Robert Frost writes in his poem Design. Their writing of life is the constant “deconstruction” or an influx of the socially constructed idea of the human and non-human; stepping beyond the margins of anthropocentricism.
The Cartographic Paradox: Investigating the Fragmented Truth of a Map in Adrift and 438 Days
Authors: Dwivedi Vaibhav
Published: September 2022

This paper seeks to examine the notion of truth in survival tales, Adrift (1986) and 438 Days (2015), through analysing the Cartographic element in them. Both Adrift and 438 Days, described as true tales of survival (where the castaway subject survived alone at sea), employ various maps in them. Deceptively innocuous though it may appear, this research will argue how the maps in these texts have multifarious-dimensions.

A map attempts to be truthful, by relying on order and factuality. It has ability to compress mammoth details, while simultaneously presenting them with astounding clarity. However, it must also depend on distortions and omissions to convey a selective reality. The map becomes a contested site, where truth and lie coexist. The understanding of truth as a solid, monolithic entity suddenly shatters. This ambivalence becomes our entry point in understanding the nuanced nature of a map in life writing. Its paradoxical existence, its interconnectedness with things beyond itself, allows the map to possess an added dimension, which the written word does not possess.

Furthermore, this paper will highlight how maps in survivor tales do not just place the narrative, but themselves exhibit a narrative potential. The relation between the written word and the experienced world culminates harmoniously in the visual world of map. This study will argue how the map provides a framework necessary to structure the text. Furthermore, this paper will also depict how a map transcends its factual role, and becomes a holder of memories by making the survivor’s traumatic experience more palpable. This research will ultimately attempt to challenge the rhetoric of concealment around maps, and pierce through the myth of their apparent objectivity. Through a work of select scholars this study will scrutinise maps as social constructions of power and knowledge in survivor narratives which mould the reader’s understanding of truth.
Standards for Peace Education and a Case for Support to Teachers in Facilitation
Authors: Candice C. Carter
Published: September 2022

The need for policy support and guidelines for teachers to provide contextually responsive instruction with competencies of conflict management and peace building has increased with escalating instances of regional and global conflicts. Across the United States, the lack of supports for such teaching has led to increased harm in response to conflicts that students must learn to manage and transform. There is an evident desire for peace education, which has found expression in several states in the U.S. where teachers do provide such instruction. Teachers, however, need training and a responsive administration to do that. Yet, there has been scanty support for peace education in teacher education programmes. Such programmes adhere to policies, research recommendations, and guidelines that contain instructional standards but do not include plans for a responsive pedagogy. This paper addresses that issue and provides a response to it. Educational researchers from different parts of the world who have identified the lack of standards for peace education in various regions collaborated in the production of this needed resource. Their research and development of interdependent components of student learning, teacher preparation, and school administration that influence peace-oriented education have helped formulate standards for students, teachers, teacher-educators, and school administrators. This discussion includes the standards that those researchers prescribed for teachers of peace education. Policy makers and school administrators can use those standards to facilitate instruction in the competencies of peace development.
When the Peace Generation is a Hundred Years Away… Youth, Citizenship, and Democracy in Times of Transition to Peace in Colombia
Authors: Daniela Romero Amaya
Published: September 2022

Efforts to consolidate a democratic citizenry are salient in societies transitioning to peace. These endeavors have spawned educational approaches to promote democratic skills, behaviors, and values in young citizens. Yet normative civic framings do not always align with students’ lived experiences, nor with their everyday decisions and expectations. Drawing from in-depth interviews with students in Leticia, Colombia, this study discusses youth understandings about citizenship in relation to the current political process. Findings provide a textured view of how young citizens participate in their civic subjectification through negotiated meanings and values they grant to the peace process and the prospects for sustained peacebuilding. Students’ perspectives prompt us to consider more comprehensive civic practices and frameworks that resonate with their everyday lives and the increasingly challenges of disrupting protracted violence and its legacies.
At home as an ‘outsider’: Subarnalata and Othappu: The Scent of the Other Side
Authors: Koshy Tharakan and Dr. Payel Chattopadhyay Mukherjee
Published: September 2022

The phrase ‘at home’ connotes familiarity, happiness and safety, while the image of an ‘outsider’ evokes the opposite sentiments. It is ironical and a seeming contradiction to feel as an ‘outsider’ in one’s own home. Though many literary texts have portrayed the poignant stories of characters who feel alienated within the precincts of their home, it is with the advent of feminist writings that ‘home’ as a site of alterity has been fully explored. The paper, by focusing on two novels, Subarnalata, a Bengali novel published in 1966 (English translation published in 1997), and Othappu, a Malayalam novel published in 2005 (English translation published in 2009), attempts to project the uncritical binaries such as home-outside world, secular-religious, and reason-emotion, and thereby problematises the concept of ‘alterity’ itself. We have tried to look at ‘alterity’ from a psychological perspective and explain it using the construal-level theory of psychological distance.
My Bombay vs Your Bombay: An Exploration of Metropolitan Attitude Portrayed in Altaf Tyrewala’s No God in Sight
Authors: Santhini M A
Published: September 2022

The city is a heterogeneous space. It is home to large numbers of people belonging to diverse classes, religions, gender, and ethnicity. This paper is an exploration of the questions, what makes it possible for all the diverse groups to be able to call the same city their city? How does the city accommodate such a divergent population? Such questions will be explored through an interdisciplinary study of a particular metropolitan character, Rahul Adhikari, a Mumbaiite from Altaf Tyrewala’s work No God in Sight. The character Rahul Adhikari is peculiar, as he differentiates the city of Bombay as he calls it, ‘My Bombay’ and ‘Your Bombay’. Tyrewala addresses Rahul Adhikari as ‘Siddhartha in denial’, giving his character a religious colour. Hence the first part of the study is an analysis of the religious significance of his story. The second part will inspect how far the attitude of Rahul Adhikari can be equated to the ‘blasé attitude’ of metropolitan citizens which George Simmel claims is characteristic of city life. This will be done by inquiring how the diverse population of the city experiences the city and how they react to the multiplicity of sensory experiences the city exposes them to. Also, since the character under study traverses the city in his car, the effect of mobility on the social relations of the urban citizens will be investigated.
A APLICAÇÃO COMBINADA DE MÉTODOS DE PREVISÃO DE DEMANDA EM PRODUTOS FUNDIDOS
Authors: Pasolini Mônica , Monegat Amanda Dalla Rosa , Franco Mateus Müller , Orlandin Bruna Caroline , Corso Leandro Luis
Published: September 2022

A previsão de demanda é essencial para a melhoria da performance operacional das organizações, bem como na tomada de decisão nos processos de planejamento e programação da produção. Diante deste contexto, esta pesquisa objetivou aplicar e comparar os resultados de oito métodos quantitativos de previsão de demanda, classificados como sazonais e não sazonais, em um estudo de caso em uma indústria metalmecânica. Desta forma, os métodos foram utilizados na previsão de três produtos fundidos, denominados arbitrariamente como A, Be C, e os dados foram obtidos na empresa fabricante destes produtos. Para tanto, utilizou-se o software Excel para realizar as aplicações e a criação das séries temporais e das métricas de acuracidade. Como conclusões, destaca-se que o Método Multiplicativo de Winters obteve o melhor resultado para os produtos A e C. Por outro lado, para o produto B, o melhor resultado foi encontrado com o Método Aditivo de Winters. Logo, os modelos sazonais apresentaram os melhores resultados para os presentes produtos. Isto posto, com a atuação com os métodos de previsão de demanda nesta pesquisa, foi possível demonstrar a aplicação teórico-prática em um estudo de caso, entender o comportamento dos produtos analisados, e apoiar a organização em questão, no que tange a tomada de decisão e a formulação de estratégias eficientes na área.