B6112—Art after All: The Alleged Occupation of the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz

2018 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 276-281
Author(s):  
Sarah Waterfeld
Keyword(s):  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
World Community ◽  
Resistance Strategies ◽  
Theatre Production ◽  
The Face ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Rosa Luxemburg

B6112 is a collective anticapitalist, feminist, antiracist, and queer transmedial theatre production. Welcome to our artwork! Our theatre, our art, our poetry, and our work are weapons of struggle. Art does not take place in a political, social, or economic vacuum. Art takes place in world structured by imperialism and its slaughter, war, destruction, commerce, and slavery. Art must engage with this in both content and form. Otherwise it is obsolete. B6112 advocates a theatre that calls for revolution, reveals relationships of domination, denounces grievances, names guilty parties, presents resistance strategies, explores them, rejects them. B6112 stands for the elimination of nationalisms and gender inequality, for a global citizenship, for a world community in which all people peacefully coexist in equal living conditions. B6112 stands for self-organization and emancipation, for a hierarchy-free theatre that has a mimetic and thus exemplary effect on society. In the face of global disasters, we reject an entertainment theatre or a theatre of display that acts as an opiate in the society. Only when our goals have been achieved will we be able to renegotiate the role of the theatre for our society, redefine its content, and redefine the question of relevance.

Islam, Gender, and Democracy in Comparative Perspective

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Muslim Countries ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Shed Light

This volume reframes the debate around Islam and women’s rights within a broader comparative literature. It examines the complex and contingent historical relationships between religion, secularism, democracy, law, and gender equality. Part I addresses the nexus of religion, law, gender, and democracy through different disciplinary perspectives (sociology, anthropology, political science, law). Part II localizes the implementation of this nexus between law, gender, and democracy, and provides contextualized responses to questions raised in Part I. The contributors explore the situation of Muslim women’s rights vis-à-vis human rights to shed light on gender politics in the modernization of the nation and to ponder over the role of Islam in gender inequality across different Muslim countries.

Peripheral Facial Features Guiding Eye Movements and Reducing Fixational Variability

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole X Han ◽  
Puneeth N. Chakravarthula ◽  
Miguel P. Eckstein
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movements ◽  
Spatial Configuration ◽  
Oculomotor System ◽  
Facial Features ◽  
Robust Solution ◽  
The Face ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Social Importance ◽  
Fixation Variability

Face processing is a fast and efficient process due to its evolutionary and social importance. A majority of people direct their first eye movement to a featureless point just below the eyes that maximizes accuracy in recognizing a person's identity and gender. Yet, the exact properties or features of the face that guide the first eye movements and reduce fixational variability are unknown. Here, we manipulated the presence of the facial features and the spatial configuration of features to investigate their effect on the location and variability of first and second fixations to peripherally presented faces. Results showed that observers can utilize the face outline, individual facial features, and feature spatial configuration to guide the first eye movements to their preferred point of fixation. The eyes have a preferential role in guiding the first eye movements and reducing fixation variability. Eliminating the eyes or altering their position had the greatest influence on the location and variability of fixations and resulted in the largest detriment to face identification performance. The other internal features (nose and mouth) also contribute to reducing fixation variability. A subsequent experiment measuring detection of single features showed that the eyes have the highest detectability (relative to other features) in the visual periphery providing a strong sensory signal to guide the oculomotor system. Together, the results suggest a flexible multiple-cue approach that might be a robust solution to cope with how the varying eccentricities in the real world influence the ability to resolve individual feature properties and the preferential role of the eyes.

scholarly journals Religião, sexualidades e gênero

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valéria Melki Busin
Keyword(s):  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Sexual Morality ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
And Gender

No presente artigo, apresentamos elementos da composição atual do campo religioso brasileiro em função daquilo que será necessário para iluminar a discussão sobre as relações entre religião, sexualidades e gênero. Buscamos compreender teoricamente o papel desempenhado pelas religiões, mais especificamente do Catolicismo, na vida das pessoas que aderem a elas ou na cultura envolvente. Elencamos questões relacionadas à moral sexual católica, à família e ao ethos privado. Apresentamos indagações que envolvem o Catolicismo e a desigualdade de gênero. Discutiremos a religião como modeladora de subjetividades e traremos os sentimentos de culpa e vergonha relacionados à homossexualidade e à religião. Apresentaremos uma especificidade do trânsito religioso de homossexuais e, por fim, faremos a relação entre alguns princípios religiosos relativos à sexualidade e o exercício de poder em diversas esferas: simbólico-discursiva, pastoral, privada, pública etc. Palavras-chave: religião, sexualidade, homossexualidade, gênero. Abstract In this paper, we present elements of the current composition of the Brazilian religious field in terms of what will be needed to illuminate the discussion of relations between religion, sexuality and gender. We seek to understand theoretically the role played by religions, specifically Catholicism, in the lives of people who adhere to them or in the surrounding culture. We list questions relating Catholic sexual morality, family and private ethos. We introduce questions that involve Catholicism and gender inequality. We discuss the role of the religion as modeler of subjectivities and we bring feelings of guilt and shame related to homosexuality and religion. We present a specificity of religious transit of homosexuals and, finally, we will link some religious principles relating to sexuality with the exercise of power in several spheres: the symbolic-discursive, pastoral, private, public etc Keywords: religion, sexuality, homosexuality, gender.

scholarly journals Antecedents 0f Women WorkForce Conflict and Turnover: The Role of Culture and Environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 176
Author(s):  
Zarmina Khan ◽  
Danish Ahmed Siddiqui
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Work Culture ◽  
Structured Equation Modeling ◽  
Work Factors ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Workforce Turnover ◽  
And Gender

Resolving workforce conflict and turnover issues have being a great concern. Even a greater challenge is to know how this conflict takes place. Organizations working to overcome gender inequality find it even more difficult to cope up with this situation when conflict arises in the Women Workforce. This study aims to explore the reason for Women Workforce conflict and turnover, and particularly explore the role of culture and environment. We proposed a theoretical framework explaining this phenomenon. We hypothesized that various factors such as Psychological work factors, lack of Diversity, incivility, Discriminatory HR planning, no identity separation, and Gender inequality negatively affect both work both culture and environment. And this would ultimately lead to women workforce turnover and conflicts. We establish its empirical validity by conducting a survey using a close-ended questionnaire. Data was collected from 314 individuals and analyzed using confirmatory factor analysis and structured equation modeling. The results showed that Diversity, and Identity Separation have a positive whereas Gender Inequality, and Discriminatory HR Planning have a negative significant effect on the Work Environment. Moreover, the work environment in turn positively affects Women Workforce Turnover and Workforce Conflict. Psychosocial work Factors also positively affect work culture, which subsequently affects both and Women Workforce Turnover, and Conflict. Hence work environment, and culture both play an effective mediatory role in-between these factors and Women Workforce Turnover, and Conflict. Findings imply that Culture and work environment should have been considered in a professional and well-directed manner.

scholarly journals Perlindungan Perempuan dan Pernikahan di Bawah Umur

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-124
Author(s):  
Dwi Anggun Apriyanti
Keyword(s):  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Premarital Sex ◽  
Child Marriage ◽  
Structural Problems ◽  
The Government ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Made In

Advocates for ending child marriage in Indonesia face an uphill battle. The practice of child marriage is rooted in broader structural problems such as poverty and gender inequality which are intertwined with people's views on marriage, sexuality and morality according to religion and tradition. In this regard, the practice of child marriage must be understood in various fields such as religious norms on marriage, morality around premarital sex, people's views on gender and the role of children and parenting, which are not all pro-women. The views on child marriage, how child marriage is practiced, the rules and enforcement are different and often contradictory between actors and institutions, however it is girls who suffer the most as a result of the practice of child marriage. This study discusses the government efforts that have been made in protecting women and underage marriages and sees to what extent these actions can eradicate and protect. Abstrak Advokasi untuk mengakhiri pernikahan anak di Indonesia menghadapi perjuangan berat. Praktik perkawinan anak berakar pada masalah struktural yang lebih luas seperti kemiskinan dan ketimpangan gender yang saling terkait dengan pandangan masyarakat tentang perkawinan, seksualitas, dan moralitas menurut agama dan tradisi. Berkaitan dengan hal tersebut, praktik perkawinan anak harus dipahami dalam berbagai bidang seperti norma agama tentang perkawinan, moralitas seputar seks pranikah, pandangan masyarakat tentang gender serta peran anak dan pola asuh yang tidak semuanya berpihak pada perempuan. Pandangan tentang perkawinan anak, bagaimana perkawinan anak dipraktekkan, peraturan dan penegakannya berbeda-beda dan seringkali kontradiktif antara aktor dan lembaga, namun anak perempuanlah yang paling menderita akibat praktek perkawinan anak. Penelitian ini membahas upaya pemerintah yang telah dilakukan dalam melakukan perlindungan terhadap perempuan dan pernikahan di bawah umur dan melihat sejauh mana tindakan ini dapat meberantas dan melindungi.

II. The Role of a Theologian in Genocide Prevention: Theology in Postgenocide Rwanda

Horizons ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-89
Author(s):  
Elisee Rutagambwa
Keyword(s):  
International Community ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
World Community ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face ◽  
Second World

When the world came to its senses after the Second World War and reports of the horrors of the Holocaust began to spread, the international community reacted with disbelief. And when reality proved much worse than even the worst nightmare, the world community reacted unanimously with a general outcry: crimes of this magnitude must never happen again. It appeared quite clear that, in the future, the international community would never again remain inactive in the face of such appalling tragedy. Yet, the firm imperative “never again” has become “again and again,” and the same dreadful crimes have been repeated in many parts of the world.

Intersections in Subaltern Urbanism: The narratives of women in urban occupations in Brazil

2019 ◽  
pp. 239965441988796
Author(s):  
Mariana de Moura Cruz ◽  
Natália Alves da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Resistance Strategies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Belo Horizonte ◽  
Construction Knowledge ◽  
Theoretical Category ◽  
And Gender

In the past decade in Brazil, we have witnessed the rise of a new subaltern space, which has prompted a new theoretical category, incorporated in the contemporary epistemologies of Subaltern Urbanism: Urban Occupations. These new terrains of livelihood and self-organization have prompted a series of new resistance strategies, everyday practices and narratives that must be understood and decodified. The Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte—third largest in the country—accounts for over 25 housing occupations in its territory, more than half of which settled in the last five years. Occupation Rosa Leão, established in 2013, is one of them. As it happens in many other occupations, most of its dwellers are black women. They constitute majority in the coordination groups and are often more closely involved in the collective necessities of the community. The present article draws upon the experiences of these women as subjects of their own history to showcase urban occupation as a powerful place for understanding and dismantling the always existing but often overlooked intersection between coloniality and gender. It relies on the activist and academic engagement of both authors in these territories, and specifically in the experience with a women-only self-construction workshop organized in October 2017. Through this workshop, we sought to understand how “usually male” construction knowledge was employed (or not) by women, how it could be used as a tool for domination/emancipation and how gender relations intertwined with such issues in the process.

scholarly journals Modernism and Feminism Representations of Women in Modernist Art and Literature

wisdom ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
Mane Khachibabyan
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Pablo Picasso ◽  
Edouard Manet ◽  
Edgar Degas ◽  
Art And Literature ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Representations Of Women

This article demonstrates the place and role of the image of women in modernist art and literature, mainly focusing on Impressionism and Post-impressionism. It discusses the unique works of modernist painters and writers (Marie Cassatt, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Pablo Picasso and Virginia Woolf) to explore how modernist art and literature both defined, reflected and shaped gender roles. The article discourses on the representations of feminist views and gender inequality in the works of some modernist artists.

scholarly journals Identidade e lugar na metafenomenologia da alteridade Payayá

GeoTextos ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamille Da Silva Lima
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
The Other ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Resistance Movements ◽  
The Face ◽  
Sense Of Identity ◽  
And Gender

A relação lugar-identidade apresenta uma ambivalência que vai da celebração à condenação, ganhando novo fôlego após os anos 1990 tanto com a relevância que os movimentos identitários de resistência (étnicos, raciais e de gênero) alcançaram, na luta pelo lugar, enquanto território, quanto na força que o clamor pelo respeito à diferença e pelo reconhecimento do sentido opressor e colonial da identidade receberam, questionando o papel dos processos de territorialização nos conflitos e na negação da diferença que promovem a captura do Outro pelo Mesmo. Deslocamos a questão da relação identidade-diferença para o nexo consciência-lugar, desfazendo esta associação que dá relevo ao sentido frente ao sem-sentido. A prevalência da consciência é compreendida como um dos instrumentos da razão imperialista-colonizadora, eurocêntrica, e por isso é necessário fissurá-la para um outro sentido geográfico de identidade. Mas como significar nossa relação geográfica e sua implicação para a identidade libertando-se das amarras da consciência e dos modelos coloniais de intelecção do ser? Este é o principal questionamento mobilizador do artigo, o qual será enfrentado a partir da experiência com os indígenas Payayá e da interlocução com a filosofia de Emmanuel Lévinas, como metafenomenologia, no sentido de um pensamento descolonial latino-americano. Abstract IDENTITY AND PLACE IN THE METAPHENOMENOLOGY OF THE PAYAYÁ’S ALTERITY The identity-place relationship presents an ambivalence that goes from celebration to condemnation, gaining a new impetus after the 1990s, both with the relevance that identity resistance movements (ethnic, racial and gender) have achieved, fighting for the place – as territory –, as with the strength that crying for respect differences and the oppressive and colonial sense of identity received, questioning the role of the territorialization processes in the conflicts and in the denial of the distinctions that promote the capture of the Other by the Same. We move the question of the identity-difference relationship to the nexus between consciousness-place, undoing this association that gives relevance to sense in the face of the non-sense. The prevalence of consciousness is understood as one of the instruments of the imperialist colonizing reason, Eurocentric, and therefore it is necessary to break it into another geographical sense of identity. But how do we give meaning to our geographical relationship and its implication to identity, freeing ourselves from the bonds of consciousness and the colonial models of the intellection of being? This is the main question that mobilized the paper, which will be faced from the experience with the Payayá natives and the interlocution with the philosophy of Emmanuel Lévinas, as methaphenomenology, toward a Latin American descolonial thinking.

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