scholarly journals The Bumpy Road to Relevance: Croatia, Hungary and Lithuania in Perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 189-221
Author(s):  
Gabriella Ilonszki ◽  
Davor Boban ◽  
Dangis Gudelis
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Social Presence ◽  
Internal Force ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Potential Fields ◽  
Student Body ◽  
External Context ◽  
University Policies ◽  
Practical Impact

AbstractThis chapter examines how has the relevance of political science developed in Croatia, Hungary and Lithuania, that is how is the profession engaged with important audiences, namely the student body, society at large and pragmatic politics. Similar to the Western context the normative and pragmatic understanding of relevance appear in these emerging political science communities while identity formation and the achievement and preservation of legitimacy also define how political science can become relevant. The concept of relevance is built on three dimensions related to three potential fields of engagement: knowledge provision, social presence and practical impact. This chapter highlights that the profession continues to be beset by problems relating to the issue of relevance but differences between the countries are pronounced. Moreover, the three main aspects of relevance have not been achieved to the same level within the same country although we can duly expect a degree of adjustment as the three aspects are interconnected and will influence one another. This chapter argues that the development of relevance is a two-way process: government and university policies act as the external context, while the profession’s interests, commitment and ambitions constitute the internal force marking the way forward.

A new version of the Fast Multipole Method for the Laplace equation in three dimensions

Acta Numerica ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 229-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Greengard ◽  
Vladimir Rokhlin
Keyword(s):  
Laplace Equation ◽  
Fast Multipole Method ◽  
High Accuracy ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Potential Fields ◽  
Diagonal Form ◽  
Fast Multipole ◽  
Reasonable Cost ◽  
Multipole Method ◽  
Translation Operators

We introduce a new version of the Fast Multipole Method for the evaluation of potential fields in three dimensions. It is based on a new diagonal form for translation operators and yields high accuracy at a reasonable cost.

Conceptualizing Culture: Possibilities for Political Science

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (4) ◽  
pp. 713-728 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Wedeen
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Meaning Construction ◽  
Ethnic Identity Formation ◽  
Work Habits ◽  
Political Effects ◽  
Theoretical Category ◽  
Causal Variable ◽  
Oriented Approach

This essay makes a case for an anthropological conceptualization of culture as “semiotic practices” and demonstrates how it adds value to political analyses. “Semiotic practices” refers to the processes of meaning-making in which agents' practices (e.g., their work habits, self-policing strategies, and leisure patterns) interact with their language and other symbolic systems. This version of culture can be employed on two levels. First, it refers to what symbols do—how symbols are inscribed in practices that operate to produce observable political effects. Second, “culture” is an abstract theoretical category, a lens that focuses on meaning, rather than on, say, prices or votes. By thinking of meaning construction in terms that emphasize intelligibility, as opposed to deep-seated psychological orientations, a practice-oriented approach avoids unacknowledged ambiguities that have bedeviled scholarly thinking and generated incommensurable understandings of what culture is. Through a brief exploration of two concerns central to political science—compliance and ethnic identity-formation—this paper ends by showing how culture as semiotic practices can be applied as a causal variable.

What Good Can Political Science Do? From Pluralism to Partnerships

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-26
Author(s):  
Rogers M. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Authoritarian Regimes ◽  
Politics Of Identity ◽  
Useful Knowledge ◽  
Social Divisions ◽  
The World

At a time when authoritarian regimes are on the rise around the world, higher education in general and political science in particular are facing declining support and sharper political pressures in many places. Political scientists have long promised that their discipline can add to knowledge about politics and educate citizens. However, doubts have grown about whether our increasingly pluralistic discipline collectively generates useful knowledge and communicates it effectively in teaching and in broader public communications. Political scientists need to do more to place their particular studies within big pictures of how politics and the world work, and to synthesize their results. They must focus more on the politics of identity formation that has generated resurgent nationalisms and deep social divisions. They must strengthen their understanding and their community contributions through civically engaged research. They must also place greater emphasis on improving teaching. In these ways, modern scholars can show there is much good that political science can do.

scholarly journals Postcolonial Myth in Salman Rushdie’s The Ground Beneath Her Feet

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-95
Author(s):  
Roxana Elena Doncu
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Salman Rushdie ◽  
Julia Kristeva ◽  
Personal Perspective ◽  
Interior Space ◽  
Orpheus And Eurydice ◽  
External Context ◽  
Identity Reconstruction ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Postcolonial Writers

Abstract Postcolonial writers like Salman Rushdie often write back to the “empire” by appropriating myth and allegory. In The Ground beneath Her Feet, Rushdie rewrites the mythological story of Orpheus and Eurydice, using katabasis (the trope of the descent into Hell) to comment both on the situation of the postcolonial writer from a personal perspective and to attempt a redefinition of postcolonial migrant identity-formation. Hell has a symbolic function, pointing both to the external context of globalization and migration (which results in the characters’ disorientation) and to an interior space which can be interpreted either as a source of unrepressed energies and creativity (in a Romantic vein) or as the space of the abject (in the manner of Julia Kristeva). The article sets out to investigate the complex ways in which the Orphic myth and katabasis are employed to shed light on the psychology of the creative artist and on the reconfiguration of identity that becomes the task of the postcolonial migrant subject. The journey into the underworld functions simultaneously as an allegory of artistic creation and identity reconstruction.

scholarly journals The Zones of Proximal and Distal Development in Chinese Language studies with the use of wikis

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Esyin Chew ◽  
Seong Lin Ding
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Presence ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Proximal Development ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
The Uk

<p>Educational practitioners in the higher education institutions of the UK have increasingly promoted the use of wikis. The technology enhanced learning experience of the UK was transferred to a local higher educational agency in Malaysia through a collaborative research project called WiLearn. By examining a student cohort enrolled in Chinese language studies, WiLearn explores the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) and the Zone of Distal Development (ZDD) with regard to the use of wikis in peer reviewed group coursework. With the goal of informing higher education researchers and practitioners, the problematic use of wikis was discussed according to the following three dimensions: (a) the process of group work; (b) social presence; and (c) the outcome of group work. The findings reveal that more critical reflection is evident when retrieving peers’ comments through WiLearn, but less critical discourse is evident among the participants. The difference between the ZPD and the ZDD lies not in the functional use of wikis but in the degree of openness and social presence of the students from Chinese language studies. A pedagogical change in critical peer review and discourse regarding the use of wikis is suggested. This paper concludes with constructive and disruptive lessons that were learned through a series of insights that provide a greater understanding of the challenges and opportunities with regard to learning and teaching with wikis for Chinese language studies.</p><p> </p>

scholarly journals The Impact of Hair on African American Women’s Collective Identity Formation

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley R. Garrin ◽  
Sara B. Marcketti
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The Impact

The Black Pride and Power Movements of the 1960s and 1970s changed the aesthetic of the larger African American community, promoting self-affirmation and reclaiming African pride. As individuals engaged in the movement, they began to internalize new meanings and understandings of themselves, leading to self-transformation and collective identity that promoted the specific political ideology and agenda of the group. In this research, the lived experiences of African American women who were emerging adults (ages 18–25) during the Civil Rights Movement from 1960 to 1974 were examined, through in-depth interviews, to understand their experiences with wearing natural hairstyles during this time. Seven participants highlighted how wearing natural hair was used in the three dimensions of collective identity formation: boundaries, consciousness, and negotiation. Participants’ counterhegemonic use of appearance constructed, created, and negotiated a collective identity that was aligned with demonstration for racial equality of African Americans.

Interactive modeling of potential fields in three dimensions

1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hengren Xia ◽  
Richard Hansen ◽  
Norman Harthill ◽  
Peter Traynin
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Potential Fields ◽  
Interactive Modeling

scholarly journals “Nice to get to know you”

2020 ◽  
pp. 33-55
Author(s):  
Judit Háhn
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Presence ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Action Mode ◽  
Multimodal Discourse Analysis ◽  
Multimodal Discourse ◽  
Media Interaction ◽  
Collaborative Activities

Virtual exchange comprises online collaborative activities in facilitated, educational contexts across borders. This paper offers a multimodal approach to the study of social presence in students’ asynchronous online discourse in the context of virtual exchange. It draws on the Community of Inquiry model of online learning (Garrison 2017) and interprets social presence as the dynamic discursive process of social interaction and self-presentation. The data consists of screenshots collected in a closed Facebook group during the first assignment of a Czech-Finnish virtual exchange project in 2017. The study aims to explore how the method of multimodal discourse analysis can be used to describe the three dimensions of social presence. The students’ self-introductory posts, reactions and comments were examined in three modes of meaning-making: the linguistic, the visual and the action mode. The study offers a model for the qualitative multimodal discourse analysis of social presence construction in asynchronous social media interaction.

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