scholarly journals Diaspora

AILA Review ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 42-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Wei ◽  
Zhu Hua
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Chinese Diaspora ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Everyday Communication ◽  
Core Issues

The nature of diaspora is changing in the 21st century. Yet many of the communication issues remain the same. At the heart of it is multilingual and intercultural communication across time and space. There is much that applied linguists can contribute to the understanding of diaspora in the era of globalization. This article discusses some of the core issues of communication between the diaspora and the homeland, the past and the present, the individual and the community, and the sense of belonging and the ascribed category with a detailed analysis of empirical data collected through linguistic ethnography in the Chinese diaspora in Britain and elsewhere. It also highlights the significance of dynamic multilingualism in everyday communication.

Digital Literacy Research

2011 ◽  
pp. 228-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Student Learning ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Digital Form ◽  
Digital Literacies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Learning Modes ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Literacy Research

The 21st century has created an environment where the very meaning of the expression “to be literate” has come to mean much more than it did in the past. Literacy still encompasses the traditional reading, writing, and numeracy, but now includes visual and digital literacies that empower the individual to effectively communicate about, and use information (Jones-Kavalier & Flannigan, 2006). Literacy now incorporates an ability to critically evaluate information, communicate concepts, and express ideas in a variety of media, all mediated by computers. Earlier definitions of digital literacy tended to focus on technological skills (Bruce & Peyton, 1999; Davies, Szabl, & Montgomerie, 2002). However, the current focus has moved to a more pedagogical view that integrates technical, cognitive, and sociological skills (Eshet-Alkalai, 2004). What can the student do with information in digital form? The assumption now is that the student knows how to use the tools, and all that is needed is a focus on metacognitive and pedagogical needs. However, the case study presented in this article suggests that this is not so, and skills need to be integrated with meaningful tasks in order to become part of the lexicon of student learning modes.

A history of the altruism–morality debate in biology

Behaviour ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 151 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 147-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oren Harman
Keyword(s):  
Levels Of Selection ◽  
Chronological Order ◽  
The Core ◽  
Historical Figures ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Core Issues

Many different histories of the altruism–morality debate in biology are possible. Here, I offer one such history, based on the juxtaposition of four pairs of historical figures who have played a central role in the debate. Arranged in chronological order, the four dyads — Huxley and Kropotkin, Fisher and Emerson, Wynne-Edwards and Williams, and Hamilton and Price — help us grasp the core issues that have framed and defined the debate ever since Darwin: the natural origins of morality, the individual versus collective approach, the levels of selection debate, and the Is–Ought distinction. Looking forward, the continued relevance of the core issues is discussed.

scholarly journals Racism and Xenophobia in Spanish Football: Facts, Reactions and Policies

2009 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramon Llopis-Goig
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
European Football ◽  
Football Stadiums

Racism and Xenophobia in Spanish Football: Facts, Reactions and PoliciesContrary to what is sometimes supposed, racism is not a phenomenon of the past. In fact, it is one of the major challenges of the present and future in Europe and Spain. Besides providing an incomparable sense of belonging, football stadiums are also an excellent platform to express racist and xenophobic attitudes and behaviours. In Spain, for years many players have suffered abuse and insults, although it is black and ethnic minority players who receive the most harassment. Thus, the problem of racism has increased recently in Spanish football, as shown by the emission of monkey noises toward black players and the use of racist slogans and symbols in the stadiums.This paper analyses the forms of racism and xenophobia in Spanish football, as well as the actions promoted and carried out by various institutions and agents to prevent and reduce these types of behaviour. The aim of this paper is to make a contribution based on figures and reflections on the types of racism and xenophobia in the world of football in Spain. The article is divided into three major parts. The first reviews some concepts of the scientific study of racism and xenophobia, placing them in the context of Spanish football. The second contains an overview of racism in European football and describes the situation in Spain, providing some empirical data about its incidence in recent years. The third and final section presents a classification and analysis of different antiracist reactions, actions and initiatives carried out recently in Spain with the aim of combating racism in Spanish football.

scholarly journals SELECTION OF ACTIVITIES IN DYNAMIC BUSINESS PROCESS SIMULATION / VEIKLŲ PASIRINKIMAS DINAMINIO VERSLO MODELIO SIMULIACIJOJE

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 187-281
Author(s):  
Toma Rusinaitė ◽  
Titas Savickas ◽  
Tadas Vysockis ◽  
Olegas Vasilecas
Keyword(s):  
Simulation Model ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Process Simulation ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Dynamic Processes ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
Core Issues ◽  
Selection Of

Maintaining dynamicity of business processes is one of the core issues of today's business as it enables businesses to adapt to constantly changing environment. Upon changing the processes, it is vital to assess possible impact, which is achieved by using simulation of dynamic processes. In order to implement dynamicity in business processes, it is necessary to have an ability to change components of the process (a set of activities, a content of activity, a set of activity sequences, a set of rules, performers and resources) or dynamically select them during execution. This problem attracted attention of researches over the past few years; however, there is no proposed solution, which ensures the business process (BP) dynamicity. This paper proposes and specifies dynamic business process (DBP) simulation model, which satisfies all of the formulated DBP requirements. Šiuolaikiniam verslui svarbu vykdyti procesus dinamiškai, norint laiku prisitaikyti prie besikeičiančios aplinkos. Keičiant procesus reikia įvertinti keitimo pasekmes, o įvertinimui galima naudoti dinaminių procesų imitaciją. Siekiant realizuoti procesų dinamiką, reikia imitacijos metu turėti galimybę keisti proceso komponentus. Problema pritraukia daug dėmesio jau kelerius metus, tačiau vis dar nepasiūlytas sprendimas, kuris užtikrintų verslo proceso dinamiškumą. Šis straipsnis siūlo ir pateikia dinaminio verslo proceso imitacinį modelį, kuris atitinka anksčiau suformuotus dinaminio verslo proceso reikalavimus.

scholarly journals Archaeological Culture Interpreted by Chinese Archaeologists

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 75-78
Author(s):  
Zi Yan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
Core Issues ◽  
At Home

Chinese modern archaeology has inherited the achievements of local epigraphy and modern western archaeology for decades, it has also achieved fruitful results. Whether at home or abroad, in the past or now, archaeological culture is one of the core issues widely discussed and studied in the process of archaeological development. Although it has been criticized, it has actually made many contributions to archaeology. Its importance is self-evident, and it is necessary to discuss and study. This paper will try to summarize the discussion of Chinese archaeologists on archaeological culture for combing, including it’s definition, naming, interaction and dissemination.

Epilogue

2019 ◽  
pp. 244-248
Author(s):  
Geoffrey E. Hill
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Selection ◽  
Mitochondrial Genome ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Evolutionary Ecology ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Mitochondrial Genomes ◽  
Respiratory Enzymes ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
Full Consideration

Evolutionary ecology is at the precipice of a paradigm shift. For many years and through the early years of the 21st century, mitochondrial genomes were dismissed as unimportant to the evolution of complex life. Variation within mitochondrial genomes was proposed to be functionally neutral. These conceptions about mitochondrial genomes and mitonuclear genomic interactions have begun to change within the past decade, but currently accepted theories of sexual selection and speciation were proposed before the discovery of the mitochondrial genome. Evolutionary ecology has yet to fully appreciate the fundamental implications of two genomes coding for the core respiratory enzymes of eukaryotes. This chapter promotes a fundamental rethinking of key theories in evolutionary ecology with full consideration of the necessity of coadaptation of mitochondrial and nuclear genes.

Not Your Mother’s Melodrama

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-161
Author(s):  
E. L. McCallum
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
Female Directors ◽  
Chantal Akerman ◽  
Core Components ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Intimate Relations ◽  
The Individual

This essay argues that twenty-first-century melodrama films by female directors rework the core components of classic melodrama form—not only its timing, but also narrative form, agnition, and the underlying fantasy of union. While they retain a focus on objects and setting as bearers of emotion, and on a crisis in intimate relations, the three films by Chantal Akerman, Claire Denis, and Ann Hui considered here reconsider melodrama’s possibilities. They all broach ways of rethinking Oedipal fantasy, moving beyond a story of the fraught emergence of the individual to one focused on a collective problem of how we negotiate a proper proximity to cherished others. All three films turn from what could have been to what the past makes possible now and thus change melodrama from a melancholic genre to a generative one.

scholarly journals Paradoxes in psychology resonating in its empirical research of religion

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 93-111
Author(s):  
Jacob A. Belzen
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Psychology Of Religion ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Scientific Enterprise ◽  
Major Task ◽  
Empirical Psychology ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Issues

AbstractAs a scientific enterprise, the psychology of religion is vitally dependent on developments in psychology in general, sharing its strengths as well as its weaknesses. The article discusses psychology being haunted by a number of paradoxes that resonate in psychological research on religion as well. As a prominent specimen of such empirical psychology of religion, the oeuvre of R. W. Hood, a well-known contemporary US contributor to that field, is selected. Another stage in a long-standing cheerful dialogue with Hood, the article points out some remarkable parallels with the oeuvres of Hall and James, founding fathers of US psychology. While critically engaging with some of the core issues and tendencies in Hood’s publications, the article explains the sense in which his struggle to find a balance with regard to three paradoxical tendencies will be a major task for the field during the next few decades of the 21st century.

‘New Italians’ and intercultural citizenship: Challenging hegemonic visions of migration, childhood and identity through fiction

2020 ◽  
pp. 136754942090280
Author(s):  
Laura Rorato
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Immigrant Children ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Italian Women ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
The Impact

This article explores how representations of migration in 21st-century Italian fiction, including texts aimed at children and adolescents, can foster intercultural communication and contribute to the creation of a more tolerant society. Children represent a large proportion of the number of migrants arriving in Italy every year. However, since immigration is a relatively recent phenomenon, and Italians are still struggling to accept their homeland’s transition from emigrant to immigrant nation, Italian fiction offers a useful platform for exploring and challenging stereotypes about childhood, migration, identity and multiculturalism. This article presents a close reading of four semifictional works selected for their child-centric perspective, and their authors’ desire to use storytelling as a contact zone, that is a tool for sharing memories and creating a community spirit capable of promoting a sense of belonging, even in the absence of a single physical place to call home. The texts in question are Sumaya’s Abdel Qader’s Porto il velo, adoro i Queen. Nuove italiane crescono [I wear a headscarf, I love Queen. New Italian women are growing up]; Giuseppe Caliceti’s Italiani, per esempio. L’Italia vista dai bambini immigrati [Italians, for instance. Italy seen through the eyes of immigrant children]; Fabrizio Gatti’s Viki che voleva andare a scula [Viki who wanted to go to School], and Carmine Abate’ La festa del ritorno [The homecoming party]. All four authors have either direct or indirect experience of migration and particularly of the impact that migration has on children. They also share a sense of commitment and engagement and particularly in Caliceti’s and Abate’s case, an interest in language as a form of resistance. Their works are clear examples of the power of literature in challenging some of the more problematic sociological and media discourses about childhood and migration that tend to represent children as vulnerable victims or potential criminals.

scholarly journals Emotional reflexivity in contexts of migration: How the consideration of internal processes is necessary to explain agency

Digithum ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 43-53
Author(s):  
Yvonne Albrecht
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual

Current societies are configured in such a way that relations with others are less defined and social conditions are complex and often nontransparent (e.g. Holmes, 2015; Bauman, 2003). There is never-ending uncertainty over how to act and how to feel. Set rules on how to feel no longer exist (Hochschild, 1983; Neckel, 2005; Wouters, 1999). These conditions also pose a challenge in migration processes: clear demarcations and unwavering sense of belonging are often not possible “just like that” (Albrecht, 2016, p. 1). This implies challenges for the individual. To this effect, emotions become increasingly important in navigating one’s own path through uncertain conditions (Holmes, 2015). The following paper addresses how emotional reflexivity processes are relevant for individuals in these situations. As such, emotional reflexivity must be defined as a process of internal adjustment between emotional activity and emotional passivity. The result of this process is visible through a level of action which can also consist in taking no action at all (Helfferich, 2012). Therefore, the paper suggests a modified definition of the terms agency and “emotional reflexivity”. The definition of emotional reflexivity includes several aspects of Holmes’s (2015; 2010) and Burkitt’s (2012) former definitions and expands on them. Emotional reflexivity – internal adjustments of emotional activity and passivity – will be illustrated using empirical data on current processes of migration to Germany.

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