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ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSPARENCY AND ITS IMPACT ON SERVICE QUALITY - AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF THE OPINIONS FOR LEADERS OF THE FIRST KARKH EDUCATION DIRECTORATE
Authors: Mohammed Raeda Malallah
Published: May 2022

This research aims to examine the correlation and the impact of Organizational Transparency on Service Quality in the first Karkh Education Directorate, Starting from the importance of research in public organizations and the importance of these organizations to the community, it is rely descriptive analytical methods in achievement of this research, the research involved board of directors, Data has collected from (48) respondents, represent the respondent society exclusively and comprehensively, it involved the general directors, assistant general directors and heads of department and their assistants, The research relied programs (Excel 2010, Spss V.28), moreover, some of descriptive statistics methods to test research's Hypotheses (Mean , St .D, KMO , Correlation and Regression), The researcher is attain to the existence of relationship and impact of Organizational Transparency in Quality of Work , the research included four axes first went to the methodology and second to theoretical frame and the third to view and analyze the results and test hypotheses while the fourth was devoted to the conclusions and recommendations.
THE ROLE OF THE GREEN OCEAN STRATEGY IN MEDIATING STIMULATING CONTINUOUS INNOVATION TO ACHIEVE STRATEGIC VICTORY: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY IN THE GENERAL COMPANY FOR LEATHER INDUSTRIES
Authors: Ghaleb Al-Mado Dr. Alaa Abdulkareem
Published: May 2022

The management of the General Company for Leather Industries faces in its work in the local market a constant state of competition; whether it is from competing companies or products imported from different countries, in addition to changes in customer tastes and the acceleration of the pace of designs and environmental variables, which requires the adoption of a green ocean strategy to help the company face those challenges, Hence, the research problem crystallizes on how the green ocean strategy that employ to achieve strategic victory by adopting stimulating Continuous innovation in the General Company for Leather Industries. The goals that it seeks to achieve indicate the objectives of the research. A questionnaire was adopted and distributed to (84) samples of employees of the General Company for Leather Industries in the city of Baghdad. To measure the results of the influence relationship. The research concluded that there is an influence relationship of the green ocean strategy on the strategic victory and a positive effect to stimulate Continuous innovation. The study recommends adopting the green ocean strategy as an approach followed by the management of the General Company for Leather Industries to increase the creative ideas that help it reach and maintain the strategic victory
Sistem Pendukung Keputusan Pemilihan Mahasiswa Lulusan Terbaik Dengan Menggunakan Metode Multi Attribute Utility Theory (Maut) DiStmik Antar Bangsa
Authors: Setiawan Yogi , Budilaksono Sularso
Published: May 2022

Pemilihan Mahasiswa Lulusan Terbaik merupakan hal yang sangat penting untuk prestasi duniapendidikan, kelulusan juga berpengaruh terhadap nilai akreditasi suatu pendidikan itu sendiri.Pemilihan Mahasiswa Lulusan Terbaik di STMIK Antar Bangsa masih dilakukan dengan cara manualyaitu dengan menggunakan Microsoft excel, yang dilihat berdasarkan kriteria akademik, yaitu IndexPrestasi Kumulatif (IPK), masa studi mahasiswa, dan Tidak ada nilai D. Selain itu terdapat kriteria nilaitahfidz yang diambil pada semester terakhir. Bila data Mahasiswa yang akan dipilih memiliki jumlah yangbanyak, maka akan membutuhkan waktu yang lama dan dapat memungkinkan terjadinya kesalahan dalamproses pengolahan data yang digunakan dalam proses pemilihan Mahasiswa Lulusan terbaik. Padapenelitian ini diusulkan suatu sistem pendukung keputusan untuk pemilihan Mahasiswa terbaik di STMIKAntar Bangsa yang dilakukan dengan menggunakan metode Multi Atribute Utility Theory (MAUT), yangdiharapkan dapat menghasilkan keputusan berupa daftar perangkingan data Mahasiswa lulusan terbaik.Pada akhir penelitian tugas akhir ini telah berhasil membangun dan mengembangkan sebuah aplikasiberbasis web yang dilengkapi dengan laporan hasil Tugas Akhir, serta presentasi hasil akhir juga telahdilakukan untuk pihak perusahaan. Kesimpulan dari keseluruhan proses penyusunan Tugas Akhir iniadalah membangun dan mengembangkan sebuah aplikasi berbasis web kampus STMIK Antar Bangsaagar menjadi lebih dinamis dan user friendly.
Kastamonu Turizm Çalışmalarının UNESCO Miras Listeleri ve Programlarına Hazırlık Sürecinde Kurumsallaşma ve Yerel Kalkınma Özelinde Değerlendirilmesi
Authors: KURT Begüm
Published: May 2022

Özet

Amaç: Bu çalışma, Kastamonu’nun UNESCO Miras Listeleri ve Programlarına hazırlık sürecini yerel kalkınma ve kurumsallaşma açısından değerlendirerek literatüre katkı sunmayı amaçlamaktadır.

Yöntem: Örnek olay çalışmasından yararlanılmıştır.

Bulgular: Şehirlerin UNESCO Programları ve Miras Listeleri hazırlık süreçleri farklı aktörler arasında iş birliği geliştirmeyi ve iş birliği kültürü oluşturmayı teşvik eder.

Tartışma: Turizm pek çok ulusal ekonomi için gelir kaynağı yaratan önemli bir sektör, 2019 yılında 1,4 milyar dolar uluslararası turizm gelirleri ile istihdama katkı sunuyor (UNWTO, 2020). Etkisinin büyüklüğü destinasyonlar arasındaki rekabeti artırırken her bir destinasyon marka değerini artırmaya yönelik çalışmalara da hız veriyor. Bu değeri olumlu yönde etkileyen unsurlardan biri de destinasyonun belli standartlara sahip olduğunu gösteren uluslararası etiketler ya da bir diğer ifade ile marka değeri taşımalarıdır. Bu noktada, Türkiye’de de destinasyonlar uluslararası ağlara dahil olmak için önemli çalışmalar yapmaktadır. Özellikle son yıllarda, artan başvuru sayısı ile öne çıkan UNESCO Yaratıcı Şehirler Ağı, şehirlerin marka değerlerini artırmak için hazırlandıkları rekabetçi programlardan biridir. 7 yaratıcı tema üzerine kurulu programa, Kastamonu da gastronomi şehri olmak için çalışmalarını sürdürmektedir. Bu çalışmada Kastamonu UNESCO Yaratıcı Şehirler Ağı hazırlık sürecinin kurumsallaşma ve yerel kalkınmaya etkileri değerlendirilecektir.
Smart Bus Tracking System
Authors:   Galgotias University, Sadh Ketan , Pandey Nitesh ,   Galgotias University, Bala Anu ,   Galgotias University
Published: May 2022

The Reаl Time Bus Trасking System рrоjeсt is develорed tо mаke the сurrent bus trаnsроrtаtiоn system рарerless аnd mоre digitаl. This will mаke the business eаsier due tо the user friendly аnd eаsy tо use system. Using this system will inсreаse рrоduсtivity. The mаin рurроse behind this is tо рrоvide trаnsроrtаtiоn serviсes tо the соnsignоr аnd соnsignment. Due tо соmрuterized billing, shоrt раyment, reроrt рreраrаtiоn etс. Will be stоred рermаnently аnd will be reаdily аvаilаble when needed in the future. Аs а result, it will reduсe the wоrklоаd in the оffiсe whiсh will leаd tо mоre рrоduсtive wоrk. Seсurity аnd business роtentiаl аlsо inсreаse. The imрlementаtiоn оf this digitаl system аllоws рrорer mаnаgement аnd аnаlysis with the helр оf the dаtа соlleсted аnd generаted
Hand Gesture Controlled Presentation Viewer with AI Virtual Painter
Authors:   B.Sc. Information Technology Student Department of CS & IT, JAIN (Deemed-To-Be University), K Jishma , Jims Anupama ,   Assistant Professor Department of CS & IT, JAIN (Deemed-To-Be University)
Published: May 2022

Online teaching has been encouraged for many years but the COVID-19 pandemic has promoted it to an even greater extent. Teachers had to quickly shift to online teaching methods and processes and conduct all the classroom activities online. The global pandemic has accelerated the transition from chalk and board learning to mouse and click - digital learning. Even though there are online whiteboards available for teaching, teachers often find it difficult to draw using a mouse. A solution for this would be to get an external digital board and stylus but not everyone would be able to afford it. The Hand-Gesture Controlled Presentation Viewer With AI Virtual Painter is a project where one can navigate through the presentation slides and draw anything on them just like how one would on a normal board, just by using their fingers. This project aims to digitalise the traditional blackboard-chalk system and eliminate the need for using a mouse or keyboard while taking classes. HandGesture controlled devices especially laptops and computers have recently gained a lot of attraction. This system works by detecting landmarks on one’s hand to recognise the gestures. The project recognises five hand gestures. It uses a thumb finger for moving to the next slide, a little finger for moving to the previous slide, two fingers for displaying the pointer, one finger for drawing on the screen and three fingers for erasing whatever has been drawn. The infrastructure is provided between the user and the system using only a camera. The camera’s output will be presented on the system’s screen so that the user can further calibrate it. Keywords: Hand Gestures, Gesture Detection, Virtual Painter.
Effect of different district water sources on compressive strength on concrete
Authors:   (Structural Engineering), Bhilai institute of Technology, Durg, Chhattishgarh, India, Tarak Yash , saxena Tushar ,   Assistant Professor, Department of civil Engineering, Bhilai institute of technology, Durg chhattishgarh, India
Published: May 2022

The quality of mixing water may affect the setting, hardening and strength of the concrete. Concrete is the most durable material and cement provides the large amount of energy to structural materials in concrete. Here the principal consideration is to mixing the quality and quantity of water into the concrete preparation. For the preparation of concrete quality of water always plays a major role. Quality of water may vary according to places; hence it may change the behaviour of concrete. It is seen that the water may affect strength, workability, setting time, compressive strength. According to IS3025 (Part II):1983, pH value of water should be potable between the range of 6.0 to 8.0 pH, it is favourable for construction work. The works aim is to provide a new approach of concrete compressive strength and also check the alkalinity, total suspended solids, sulphate, hardness etc. Samples are collected by different district (Durg, Rajnandgaon, Kawardha, and Balod) of Chhattisgarh. Here we get different types of Minerals in every district. So this is done to determine the Compressive Strength Test of Concrete by making concrete cubes. The samples of concrete (cube) were made for two different Grade i.e. mix design of M20 and M25 and with variable water cement ratio. The result after tests were compared and determination of various aspect of water were made if they are suitable to use for structural member of building and related structures Keywords- Compressive Strength, Setting time, Water test, Impurity, pH value, Strength, Sieve analysis, W/C ratio, PPC cement, Workability test, Structural member
Efektivitas Penyelengaraan Program Pelatihan Kerja Di UPTD Balai Latihan Kerja Dinas Tenaga Kerja Dan Transmigrasi Kabupaten Subang
Authors: Kusnadi Iwan Henri , Luki Natika , Faqihudin Firdaus
Published: May 2022

Abstrak

Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi oleh masih banyaknya masyarakat angkatan kerja di Kabupaten Subang yang menjadi pengangguran. Tuntutan dunia kerja akan tenaga terampil mendorong pencari kerja untuk mengikuti pendidikan dan pelatihan kerja non formal untuk menambah keterampilan dan keahlian mereka. Dalam hal ini pemerintah Kabupaten Subang berperan penting dalam menyediakan lembaga pelatihan kerja. Seiring dengan era otonomi daerah, Kabupaten Subang mendirikan Unit Pelaksana Teknis Dinas Balai Latihan Kerja (UPTD BLK) yang berada di bawah pengawasan Dinas Tenaga Kerja dan Transmigrasi Kabupaten Subang. Tujuan utama dari penelitian ini adalah mendeskripsikan secara lengkap pelaksanaan pelatihan kerja di Unit Pelaksana Teknis Dinas Balai Latihan Kerja Kabupaten Subang dan Selain itu penelitian ini juga bertujuan untuk mengetahui sejauh mana tingkat efektivitas pelatihan kerja yang dilaksanakan beserta faktor pendukung dan penghambatnya.

Kata kunci: Efektivitas, Pelatihan, Subang

 

Abstract

This research is motivated by the fact that there are still many people in the workforce in Subang Regency who have become a movement. The demands of the world of work to be skilled at encouraging job seekers to take part in non-formal education and work to increase their skills and expertise. In this case, the Subang Regency government plays an important role in providing job training institutions. Along with the era of regional autonomy, Subang Regency established a Technical Implementation Unit for the Office of Job Training Center (UPTD BLK) which is under the supervision of the Manpower and Transmigration Office of Subang Regency.The main purpose of this study is to describe in full the implementation of the training in the Technical Implementation Unit of the Subang Regency Job Training Center and in addition, this study also aims to determine the extent to which the effectiveness of the training is accompanied by supporting and inhibiting factors.

Keywords: Effectiveness, Training, Subang
Cinematic Transpositions of the “Republic”?
Authors: Swamy Vinay
Published: May 2022

How do we characterize a nation? And what role does cinema-as-cultural-product have in the formation of a nation? Starting with these fundamental questions, this essay considers three historical moments from the late 1980s through the mid-2010s to contextualize how so-called Beur filmmaking foregrounded models of integrating Maghrebi immigrants and their descendants into the folds of the French Republic. Bach’s Well-tempered Clavier provides the basis for rumination on transposition-as-metaphor to explore the political and cultural processes at play in the (trans)formations to which such films legitimately lay claim. In particular, two films by Philippe Faucon (Fatima, 2015) and Fejria Deliba (D’une pierre deux coups, 2016) serve to examine some of these (trans)formations and offer new transpositions of conventional interpretations of the French Republic.
Transposed Modes
Authors: Rice Alison
Published: May 2022

This chapter examines three recent works of fiction by Francophone writers that represent with pressing detail the dilemmas faced by migrants who risk everything in an attempt to reach northern shores. The reasons behind these departures are multiple, but most migrants are motivated by more than simplified facts. There is something driving many of these individuals that goes beyond their dire circumstances and speaks to their imaginary in such a powerful way that they are prone to keep trying, even when they are repeatedly deflected from reaching their geographical goals. This tendency to remain fixated with the desired destination is exemplified in Fabienne Kanor’s Faire l’aventure (2014), a novel featuring plurilingual passages and musical moments that have much in common with similar innovative techniques in Nathacha Appanah’s Tropique de la violence (2016) and Fatou Diome’s Celles qui attendent (2010). Taken together, these current migratory texts disrupt a linear sense of progression and reveal that many migrants are denied the possibility of reaching the finish line of their dreams and are condemned to circle back, again and again, until the place where the race began becomes the final note.
Henry Ireton in Ireland, 1649–1651
Authors: Farr David
Published: May 2022

A careful exploration of Henry Ireton’s role in the initial and subsequent campaigns in Ireland with a close look at the political relationship between Cromwell and Ireton.
A Scramble for Ireland
Authors: Cunningham John
Published: May 2022

An attempt to take Cromwell out of the Cromwellian Settlement, a programme of which Cromwell himself seemed to disapprove, despite having a personal financial interest in Ireland as an adventurer.
Pastoral
Authors: Read Sophie
Published: May 2022

Pastoral is a complex genre, with classical and renaissance inheritances that offer both the romantic simplicity of rural retreat and its opposite: urban encroachment, political engagement, broken-hearted discontent. This chapter concerns the updated pastoral poetics of Michael Haslam (1947-), poet, machine-worker, resident of Hebden Bridge and semi-detached member of the Cambridge school which flourished under the influence of J. H. Prynne from the 1960s. It seeks to understand Haslam’s engagement with the practical and political elements of pastoral, as well as its literary and folkloric aspects – thinking about noise, repetition and reflection as poetic strategy and generic stance. It argues, though consideration of lyric verse from Continual Song (1986) to Scaplings (2017), that pastoral – the poetics of nature and experience paradoxically dependent on a highly theorised and formalised literary construct – is not just the only lyric mode capable of negotiating between intuition and education, but that it provides for Haslam a compelling model for compositional practice. This chapter will represent the first sustained scholarly investigation of Haslam’s writing.
Ode
Authors: Farmer Gareth
Published: May 2022

A curious genre, the ode operates as both a celebration and lament: it celebrates and memorialises heroes (for Pindar, the prowess of athletes), but it also laments life’s transience, all the while hoping that art will secure immortality for its subjects and the humble poet. In her posthumously published collection, On the Periphery (1976), Forrest-Thomson – who died in 1975 at the young age of 27 – exhibited a late flourish of ode writing. Always prone to idolise and imitate a range of poets in order to produce a resonant tone of memorialisation, in many of her later poems, Forrest-Thomson renovates the elevated art of the ode, not just as a memorial and address to dead poets, but also as a celebration of their craft. For her, the ode was a mode of artifice-resurrection, with quotation, imitation and parody as so many ways of resuscitating sometimes long-dead craft. But the ode is not just an isolated literary genre, and this chapter suggests that Forrest-Thomson inaugurated a new form of ode, inspiring a burgeoning of politically-informed ode practices of present and future poets.
Song
Authors: Abbott Ruth
Published: May 2022

Denise Riley has been incorporating parts of songs in her poetry since her first collection. She has also often written poems that sound like songs in their own right, including poems that shift into the rhyming four- and three-beat lines by which ‘song’ as a lyric form has generally been characterized, and poems that recall ballad and hymn stanzas. Working chronologically, this chapter traces echoes of the form, song, through Riley’s oeuvre, seeking to understand the changing part that song plays in her theory and practice, and address one of her most abiding questions: what is it that song is and does?
Nocturne
Authors: Allen Edward
Published: May 2022

This chapter is about the night song, or nocturne, and the extent to which it has provided J. H. Prynne with a formal correlative for his nocturnal habits. It did so at a crucial moment in the poet’s career – the 1960s – just as he was composing the lyrics that would eventually find a home in The White Stones (1969). Those years witnessed significant strides in space exploration – particularly for the Soviet Union and for the United States – just as they did for political causes of one kind and another, including the Civil Rights movement. Prynne was attentive to such movements, with the result that the nocturne became in his hands a vehicle for thinking about the sorts of macro-historical developments that others (Ezra Pound, Charles Olson) had once explored in the epic form. The chapter is about the politics of cosmology, then, but it is also about the longer history of nocturne-writing. As well as touching on poets central to the evolving genre, the chapter looks to other media such as visual art and music (James McNeill Whistler’s paintings, Fryderyk Chopin’s piano writing) in order to assess the kinds of analogy that might help to thicken a description of the nocturne genre.
Coterie Culture and Modernist Presses
Authors: Brady Deirdre F.
Published: May 2022

This chapter presents a biography of the modernist press, the Gayfield Press (1937-1946), and provides a critical case study for the discussion of Irish modernism, feminism, and the influence of coterie culture. It offers an account of the press, its eight book publications, it’s series of broadsheets, published authors and aesthetic vision of its owner, the poet Blanaid Salkeld. This chapter examines the conditions around publishing in terms of business models, complexities of daily publishing activities, context of censorship and political leanings and affiliations. Furthermore, it critically assesses the aesthetic vision of the owner through a systematic analysis of the books produced and the broadsheet project, weighing the social and political coding within these texts and illustrations. In so doing, it aims to reclaim agency for the autonomous female publisher in the history of book publication and the influence of the collective on the production of books.
The roundel, Kent and Sussex
Authors: Grattan Patrick
Published: May 2022

A wave of building of round kilns in Kent and Sussex took place as hop growing developed strongly during the first half of the 19th century. The density of hop growing and drying in and around Canterbury is illustrated. The roundel was a natural evolution from the earlier projecting cone out of the roof. Jahn Read of Horsmonden claimed to be the inventor of the round kiln and he did much to promote the model. His influence was extensive. The Journals of the Royal Agricultural Society published detailed papers on hop farming and drying, for example by Samuel Rutley showing complex hot air pipework circulating around the kiln.
Hop drying in Continental Title of Chapter Europe
Authors: Grattan Patrick
Published: May 2022

Each hop growing and drying country in Europe had its own character and distinct hop drying buildings. Poperinge on the Belgian-French border the main centre for Flanders. Small inset kilns, the oast design taken up in England, remained the norm in Flanders with many surviving examples. The story of hops in Alsace and Burgundy recounted. Multi-storied, timber-framed buildings in Bavaria were the normal method of drying with natural draught, not fires. Major expansion in the 19th-20th centuries in Bavaria and Bohemia � Czech Republic
Prologue
Authors: Wilkinson Ben
Published: May 2022

The prologue introduces Paterson’s poetry by outlining the development of its key stylistic features, alongside the poetry’s underlying thematic consistency. It outlines the poems’ inventive deployment of quotidian detail, increased use of direct address to the reader, and exploration of personae, leading to a more anonymous poetic voice in the later work. The chapter argues that these stylistic features can all be seen as facilitators to the philosophical thinking and imaginative transformation that the poems insist upon, given the thematic concern at the heart of Paterson’s poetics: the divide between our routine encounters with the world, and the sense that the complex nature of reality lies beyond the perceptually-restricted state of human consciousness. The chapter concludes that the defining feature of Paterson’s poetry is its productive deployment of competing dualities, and that allowing for their free play is crucial in enabling a full understanding of Paterson’s poems.
For the Hell of It: Nil Nil (1993)
Authors: Wilkinson Ben
Published: May 2022

Having outlined the key stylistic features and thematic consistency of Paterson’s poetry to date, this chapter begins with original readings of key poems. It argues that the poems of Paterson’s first collection Nil Nil subtly cultivate metaphysical paradox, drawing on the specific details of the everyday so as to set into motion perceptual transformations that offer striking new perspectives. The chapter focuses in particular on how the central technique of estranging ordinariness correlates with Nil Nil’s central themes: the unstable, mutable nature of the self, and the blurred distinction between the real and the imagined. The chapter also makes reference to Louis MacNeice, Philip Larkin, Tony Harrison, Seamus Heaney, Arthur Rimbaud and the Symbolists, with which the poems share natural affinities.
Not Your Name, Not Mine: The Eyes (1999)
Authors: Wilkinson Ben
Published: May 2022

This chapter addresses Paterson’s third collection, a volume of loosely translated ‘versions’ after the Spanish of Antonio Machado. It argues that attempts to cultivate a more anonymous poetic voice are what define these ‘portrait’ poems. It shows how Paterson’s adoption of Machado’s ‘singerless song’ allows for a significant development in the stylistic and thematic texture of his poetry, incorporating both a greater emotional range and a more direct seriousness than his previous work. This is discussed in relation to the book’s central themes: the reconciliation of poetic thought and feeling, and intuitive understanding enabled by a spiritually-attuned poetry. The chapter draws on T. S. Eliot’s concept of the dissociation of sensibility, as well as briefly addressing the influence of the aphoristic writings of Antonio Porchia and Emil Cioran. Paterson’s versions are discussed alongside the closer fidelity of translations of Machado written by Robert Bly.
Coda: 40 Sonnets (2015) and Zonal (2020)
Authors: Wilkinson Ben
Published: May 2022

The Coda summarises the book’s findings by reiterating the stylistic developments of Paterson’s poetry to date, alongside its increasingly sophisticated realisation of poetry as a unique mode of knowledge. It argues that Paterson’s achievement in Rain is to have produced poems that clearly distinguish poetry from other modes of intellectual enquiry, infusing both thought and feeling in a more openly intuitive means of improvising truth. The Coda then turns to examine Paterson’s further experimentation with the sonnet form in his seventh collection, 40 Sonnets, arguing that the book cements Paterson’s standing as one of the most significant English-language poets currently writing, who shows that poetic form is precisely what you make of it. The Coda concludes by briefly addressing Paterson’s eighth volume, Zonal (2020), an experiment in science fiction and fantastic autobiography.
‘The Age-Old Struggle’
Authors: Hepworth Jack
Published: May 2022

Outlining the historical background to the Northern Ireland conflict, this introduction delineates salient themes in the historiography of Irish republicanism. Introducing the book’s archival sources, oral histories, and interpretive methodologies, it signals attention to republicanism’s internal dynamics. Understanding republicanism’s mosaic quality and strategic transformation, it argues, necessitates a focus upon how republicans have historicised, spatialised, framed, and adapted their struggle differently. The introduction counterposes the tensions between republican attempts to build a uniform, unified movement, and the dissonances and dilemmas which pervaded the movement, especially during strategic review. Explaining variations within Irish republicanism, this introduction foregrounds the key, interconnected factors which simultaneously sustained, complicated, and fragmented republican politics: class, space, and networks within republicanism.
Feminism And Women’S Feminism Activism
Authors: Hepworth Jack
Published: May 2022

This chapter assesses the relationship between Irish republicanism, feminism, and women’s republican activism. Paradigm shifts in feminist thought globally pervaded republicanism differently. Republicans emphasised feminist ideas to differing degrees and invoked women’s experiences by turns locally, nationally, and internationally. A combination of social conservatism and working-class scepticism concerning ‘women’s liberation’ informed republican critiques of feminism in the 1970s. The chapter elucidates the tensions surrounding republicans broadly endorsing feminist rights-based discourse while prioritising the unity of the republican movement. Debates concerning divorce, contraception, and abortion highlighted considerable social fissures within republicanism from the 1980s. From the late 1980s, especially among Provisional IRA prisoners, radical feminist critiques emerged, connecting to broader intra-republican debates about tactics, revolutionary theory, and the distribution of power within the movement.
Catholicism
Authors: Hepworth Jack
Published: May 2022

This chapter considers the complex relationship between Irish republicans and Catholicism, examining republicans’ uneasy relationship with religious authority. Republicans bifurcated the agency of the Catholic Church and its clergy between the spiritual and political realms: activists looked to the Church to corroborate grievances concerning human rights and democracy, while lambasting the institution as a mainstay of a corrupt old order to be overthrown. The hunger strikes of 1980 and 1981 led many grassroots republicans to rebuke clerical interventions in political impasse as inadequate, or even detrimental to the republican cause. Yet for republican prisoners, liberation theology connoted the pedagogy and internationalist leftism which influenced prison communities. The chapter also considers the remarkable minority among Catholic clergy who moved beyond acknowledging lay Catholic grievances, and supported physical-force republicanism more overtly and actively.
Hollowed Bodies: The Aural Skin of African Cinema
Authors: Dima Vlad
Published: May 2022

Cinematic sound in African films often supplants the visual as the primary narrative tool, flipping over the usual conceptualization of the filmic narrative as image plus sound. Yet sound is not generally described as having a body, at least not in the material sense. This chapter engages with several contemporary francophone African films in order to show that indeed sound has a corporeal attribute, and that there is an active aural body that makes physical contact with the spectators. Ultimately, the clash between the visual and the aural body forces us to rethink the way in which neocolonial subjectivities are formed.
Listening Back to the Sounds of Algiers in Pépé le Moko (1937), Omar Gatlato (1976), and Viva Laldjérie (2003)
Authors: Boutaghou Maya
Published: May 2022

In Pepe le Moko (1937), The Battle of Algiers (1966), Omar Gatlato (1977), and Viva Laldjérie (2004), an essential aspect of the city exists in a soundscape, which translates the extension of space that the viewer cannot reach. As any major capital, Algiers exists through its sounds, and this chapter traces the emergence of a specific narrative through “audio-vision” (Chion 2019), or the combination of images and sound. This chapter focuses on what the sounds say about the city, particularly how the narrative changes between 1937 and 2004. For instance, cinematographer Smaïl Lakhdar-Hamina (Omar Gatlato) and director Nadir Moknèche (Viva Laldjérie) underline a realistic approach to urban life through the recording of its natural sounds. By analyzing soundscapes using a semiotic approach, this chapter identifies forgotten realities. Sounds and silences make the reality of a place emotionally accessible. Films act as transcriptions and translations of the sonic reality of a place, its contradictions, its implicit or explicit violence, all of which are rendered to viewers through æsthetic forms. The chapter analyzes sounds as forms that shape the imaginary of a place and its volatile representations. It reaffirms Patrizia Lombardo’s assertion that music and sounds constitute ways of perceiving space (Memory & Imagination in Film: Scorsese, Lynch, Jarmusch, Van Sant, 2014). A city in a movie is a reconstitution that can be realistic or unrealistic, magnified or condensed: by focusing on sound, an “audio-vision” approach reveals the imaginary of the place, offering a new way of thinking its representation.
Transcending Exoticism? Sound and Voice in Dai Sijie and François Cheng
Authors: Li Shuangyi
Published: May 2022

This chapter examines the French-language novels written by two first generation Chinese migrant writers in France, Dai Sijie and François Cheng. It demonstrates how the Chinese linguistic traits are thematically, stylistically, and æsthetically constituent of the French textuality from the perspective of sounds and voices. Existing scholarship on the impact of Chinese on these writers’ French texts focuses almost exclusively on the visual aspect. Departing from this oculocentric approach, this chapter argues that attention to their novelistic engagement with sound-inspired imaginations through accents and dialects, and the translingual reinvention of "voices" as voix/Voie in relation to music, poetry, and spirituality (e.g. Daoism and Orphism) furthers our understanding of the creative dynamic of exoticism as well as the authors' fundamental desire to transcend cultures.
The “Tchip” Heard ’Round the World
Authors: Hill Edwin
Published: May 2022

This chapter traces a sonic gesture common in the African diaspora that seems to have caught the dominant French public’s attention in 2015: le tchip, often referred to in English as suck-teeth or kiss-teeth. Listening into the powerful frequencies of tchip practices, its various modes of moving and moving through bodies in and around 2015, from classrooms and social media to musical culture and political discourse, this chapter attempts to sketch out the surveillance of affective tonality, and what Steve Goodman calls “the transduction of bad vibes,” in contemporary French culture and society. Along the way, it points toward the ways in which sound cultures play a crucial role in the everyday experiences of the African diaspora in France.
Filmmaking at the Speed of Fear
Authors: Daniel Rob
Published: May 2022

An examination of how the construction of Martin Scorsese’s Cape Fear is designed to keep audiences in a state of panic or terror. Chapter looks at the mechanics of camerawork, shot duration, editing, scoring, and performance as indicators of how Cape Fear best works if viewed as a horror film. Focussing on Robert De Niro’s antagonist, it analyses how the character controls the film’s construction, including inverting shots and breaking the fourth wall to directly address the audience. Discussion includes the input of key collaborators on the film. Including what cinematographer Freddie Francis brought to the 2.39:1 Panavision framing, how Saul Bass and Elaine Bass’ opening credits establish a sense of dread and the uncanny, and the ways in which Elmer Bernstein’s reorchestration of Bernard Herrmann’s score from the 1962 original complements the horror atmosphere.
Up the Spiral Staircase
Authors: Taylor Alison
Published: May 2022

Chapter three ventures up the spiral staircase, engaging in a critical analysis of the film by considering its themes, structure, and style. While Possession is resistant to any singular interpretation, better experienced than ‘explained,’ this chapter endeavours to explore key moments and motifs to enrich our appreciation. It considers the socio-political context of its divided Berlin setting, expressionist style, as well as the thematic tensions that help to elucidate the film: unity and division; private and public spaces; banality and extremity. This chapter takes as a guide, the pattern of the winding staircase, a recurring motif across Żuławski’s films, which the director held to have spiritual significance as a passage between worlds. Via its serpentine architecture, the spiral staircase provides an insight into the way Żuławski patterns his exploration of division and duality, the private and political.
‘If You Had Only Seen What I Saw!’ – Possession’s Reception
Authors: Taylor Alison
Published: May 2022

Chapter four examines the film’s uncertain position between arthouse and grindhouse. Possession held the paradoxical position of being showcased at the world’s leading art cinema festival in competition for the illustrious Palme d’Or, and being included in the United Kingdom’s ‘video nasties,’ a list of ‘obscene’ or otherwise questionable films, mostly comprised of violent exploitation fare. The film underwent heavy cuts for the US release. In an attempt to capitalise on the film’s horror elements, almost a quarter of the original film was removed rendering an already enigmatic film utterly incomprehensible. Chapter four unpacks the fraught history of Possession’s conflicting status as art and trash, paying particular attention to the shift the film underwent upon its release on VHS–in terms of its marketing and reception outside of the festival circuit, its butchering for the US market, and its odd place amidst other notorious video nasties. It also takes a dive in the BBFC’s archival records on Possession, shedding new light on the film’s reception history.
The Evil Dead
Authors: Haynes Lloyd
Published: May 2022

THE EVIL DEAD is one of the most inventive and energetic of all horror movies. Sam Raimi’s debut feature transcends its small budget and limited resources to deliver a phantasmagoric roller-coaster ride, a wildly absurd and surreal assault on the senses. The first two chapters detail the unique circumstances of the film’s origin - it began life as a short film which was used to encourage financial backing from a variety of investors – and it’s production history which was fraught with problems. Chapter Three examines the concept of the Bad Place (the cabin in the woods) and how the film structurally creates a ‘bad dream’ effect. Chapter Four considers how the film’s ‘macho’ male hero Ash shares similarities with the Final Girl of other horror movies of this period, while Chapter Five explores the critical approaches to the film and its reputation in Britain as a ‘video nasty’. Chapter Six examines how THE EVIL DEAD has influenced other works both within and outside of the horror genre since its release in 1982.
Ash as the ‘Final Girl’
Authors: Haynes Lloyd
Published: May 2022

THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE and HALLOWEEN (two key influences on THE EVIL DEAD) are frequently cited as superior examples of what writer Carol Clover has identified as The Final Girl. This concept revolves around a young, often virginal woman who displays a keen understanding and awareness of the dangers that surround her, often noticing how dire the situation has become long before her soon-to-be-slain friends. Chapter Four considers what character traits Ash Williams, the ‘macho’ male hero of THE EVIL DEAD, shares with the Final Girl and how effective he is as a reluctantly heroic figure.
“Some tender scenes demand the melting tear”
Authors: Brunström Conrad
Published: May 2022

The Discovery (1763) by Frances Sheridan represents a significant challenge to the traditional division of eighteenth-century comedy into its “Laughing” and “Sentimental” varieties, as eloquently delineated by Oliver Goldsmith in his important 1773 essay. While Goldsmith famously condemned sentimental comedy as unfunny but formulaic and easy to reproduce, Frances Sheridan develops a kind of morally aware and emotionally demanding comedy that retains the structure of comedy while adapting it to quite serious ends. This chapter considers The Discovery within a larger literary and performance context, illustrating its place within important debates about the role of the passions on pragmatics moral philosophy. It also considers how the play’s major influence on the genre has been obscured by the more famous works that it went on to inspire, most notably those of Sheridan’s own son, Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Shape Shifting the Silence
Authors: Kealy Úna , McCarthy Kate
Published: May 2022

This chapter interrogates the choices made by Amanda Coogan in collaboration with Dublin Theatre of the Deaf in the 2017 adaption of Teresa Deevy’s The King of Spain’s Daughter (1935), staged as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival at the Peacock Theatre. Produced by Lynette Morgan (Live Collision), the production – Talk Real Fine, Just Like a Lady – was an important moment in Irish performance practice in that it was designed to be equally accessible to deafened and hearing audiences. This chapter considers how directorial vision, collaborative authorship, design, and ensemble practice combine to expose the exclusions of theatre practice that prioritise spoken language. Additionally, the chapter analyses how spoken language-based texts can be transposed by gesture, image, and spatial, temporal, and sound design to become adaptations that reinvent, and destablise, the original text and simultaneously reflect on the wider socio-cultural environment from which that original text emanated.
Máiréad Ní Ghráda’s An Triail/On Trial (1964)
Authors: Whelan Feargal
Published: May 2022

The outstanding popular success of the 1964 Dublin Theatre Festival was a play which graphically confronted the actuality of contemporary sexual harassment, abuse of male power, and hypocritical social mores, and which included the graphic depictions of Magdalen laundries and casual prostitution in urban and rural Ireland. Yet Máiréad Ní Ghráda’s An Triail and its translation On Trial have become all but invisible to the professional Irish stage and absent from any broad discussion of institutional abuse over the past decade, despite becoming a prescribed text on the school syllabus in 2003. This chapter assesses the importance of both plays through their performance histories and situates their marginalisation in the context of both the exclusion of women authors from the canon, and also to the diminished status of Irish language cultural output in popular discourse.
Lesbianism and Legibility in Emma Donoghue’s
Authors: Hill Shonagh
Published: May 2022

Emma Donoghue’s play I Know My Own Heart (1993) draws on the life of Anne Lister (1791-1840): a Yorkshire heiress who chronicled her lesbian relationships in coded diaries. Against the backdrop of one of the character’s comments that, “The generality of people don’t suspect such a thing exists”, the play renders Anne’s coded diary, and thus lesbian experience, legible. This chapter explores how theatrical form negotiates a contradictory freedom which is dependent on cultural invisibility. I Know My Own Heart draws on and disrupts the conventions of theatrical realism to focus on the limits of the patriarchal society Anne lives in, as well as gesturing to the pitfalls and possibilities of a fully articulated and visible lesbian identity within the Regency period and contemporary Ireland.
Learning to Play Poker
Authors: Barre Nelson
Published: May 2022

Gina Moxley’s Danti-Dan (1995) depicts a world where children grow up too fast and yet do not understand the implications of their actions. The female characters in the play depict a range of emotional and sexual agencies that sometimes run counter to the expected narratives of 1970s Ireland. I argue that Moxley’s play revises and complicates old tropes about sexuality among Ireland’s youth. Her use of characters ranging from thirteen to eighteen, all of whom have incorrect and incomplete knowledge of sex, demonstrates some of the ways in which young women try to take back agency in an otherwise patriarchal society. Consideration of the original production and its socio-political context provides avenues of critical examination, as does relating the play to the #WakingTheFeminists movement which erupted some twenty years after its premiere.
Marina Carr’s
Authors: Lanters José
Published: May 2022

This chapter considers Woman and Scarecrow (2006) within the tradition of the Ars Moriendi, a body of Medieval texts that instructed those on their deathbed in the art of dying well. Carr draws on the methods presented in the (male-oriented) Ars Moriendi that test the dying man’s sense of guilt and self-worth. She approaches Woman’s deathbed examination from a contemporary, secular, and female perspective, but contextualises it with references to representations of (female) death by male artists to suggest the extent to which men have historically shaped and controlled the lives and deaths of women. Creating Woman as a contemporary female counterpart to Everyman in the medieval morality play, Carr places her protagonist in dialogue with her inner self (Scarecrow) and her deathbed attendants (Him, Auntie Ah) to expose the gendered cultural patterns that perpetuate woman’s (and man’s) tragic failure to live a good life – and die a good death.
Motherhood and the Search for Recognition in Deirdre Kinahan’s Moment (2011)
Authors: Morrissey Dorothy
Published: May 2022

This chapter explores how, in Moment, Deirdre Kinahan demands recognition for feminine subjectivity on the Irish stage, a site in which it has historically been under-represented. In her depiction of her female characters’ struggles to seek recognition and enact agency, Kinahan exposes the constraining and enabling structures within which they live their lives as twenty-first-century, suburban, Irish women. In this chapter, these constraints and enablers are located within a culturally dominant discourse of motherhood.
Family Dysfunction and Character Dynamics
Authors: Kurdi Mária
Published: May 2022

This chapter examines the dramatisation of dysfunctional family life in Nancy Harris’s Our New Girl, which represents complex themes relevant to both individuals and communities in the new millennium. In the analysis, signs of tension are traced between an always busy husband and his pregnant wife, who stays at home with their son. Parallels with Marina Carr’s Portia Coughlan and Martin Crimp’s The Country are discussed regarding issues of motherhood and parental hypocrisy. Also, the dramatic negotiation of people’s affective response to having no certain knowledge of even those closest to them and to the fact that their private sphere is constantly invaded by “new girls” comes under scrutiny. Through the positive ending it is demonstrated that this kind of invasion can generate the strengthening of intersubjective relations, while the structure is seen as mimetic of the intellectual journey on which a piece of good theatre can take its audience.
Coda – Spinning Gold
Authors: Sihra Melissa
Published: May 2022

This chapter explores the intuitive golden thread of women’s voices in Irish theatre through the creative visions of Augusta Lady Gregory and Marina Carr. The figure of the Witch or wise-woman recurs in their plays to establish an autonomous world-view for women which transcends the limitations of patriarchy. For both Gregory and Carr, the Otherworld is that of the imagination and alternative values which express women’s histories and knowledge. This chapter will explore resonances between the playwrights in Gregory’s The Golden Apple and The Full Moon with reference to Kathleen Ni Houlihan and Carr’s By the Bog of Cats…, Meat and Salt, and Blood Wedding.