(Un)necessary Hardships in “Getting There”

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jürgen Schaflechner
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Day Case ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Access To Water ◽  
Discursive Representations ◽  
Current Practices

Chapter 4 uses modern-day case studies and extensive fieldwork to depict the current situation for those undertaking the pilgrimage. It shows how the construction of the MCH brought about a modernization of transportation to the shrine and also a renaissance of the walking practice to Hinglaj. It demonstrates how the infrastructure that developed along with the MCH, easier access to water, and a reduced chance of becoming lost in the desert have led to a revitalization of walking patterns and to new interpretations of the concept of austerity (Skt. tapasyā). A case study of a group of Gujarati pilgrims from India shows the situation for Hinglaj devotees on the other side of the border whose path to the Goddess contrasts starkly with that of their Pakistani counterparts. The chapter also discusses how recent developments around Hinglaj have exposed a gap between the traditional discursive representations of the pilgrimage and current practices at the shrine.

Narratology and Imagology

Tekstualia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 125-144
Author(s):  
Miłosz Wojtyna
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Narrative Theory ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
The Other ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Advertising Campaign ◽  
Visual Narratives ◽  
Sort It ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Postclassical Narratology

Summarising recent developments in postclassical narratology and imagology, the article traces affinities between the two disciplines in order to observe the challenges that await the researchers of image and narrative in what Baudrillard called the simulation culture. Two case studies presented in the article (one devoted to Instagram visual narratives, the other – to a YouTube advertising campaign) illustrate challenges for the study of eventfulness, narrativity, and fictionality, and suggest - in line with the postulates of Mark C. Taylor and Esa Saarinen – that a radical change of educational and communicative practices is needed in contemporary Western societies. A change of this sort, it is postulated, might be instigated by the collaboration of researchers in visual studies and narrative theory.

Halkbank and OFAC: a sanctions evasion case study

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 734-743 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Fraser Scott
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Financial Crime ◽  
Operational Approach ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Banking Institutions

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use two recent US prosecutions of Turkish nationals for sanctions evasion, the Zarrab and Atilla cases, as case studies of recent developments in US sanctions law and law enforcement. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses primary sources (pleadings and other court documents) to articulate the key facts and arguments in the Zarrab and Atilla cases and to explain the sanctions evasion methodologies used by the group. This paper then draws out the lessons of these cases for the practice of financial crime compliance in banking institutions. Findings This paper highlights the expanding scope of US sanctions laws and the challenges for banks in complying with them. In particular, it shows the similarities between sanctions evasion and other financial crime methodologies, arguing that banks need to become more interdisciplinary in their operational approach to financial crime. Originality/value The Zarrab and Atilla cases are of international significance in sanction law. This paper is the first in-depth case study of these cases from a legal and compliance perspective.

Killing Your Neighbors

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon D. Holtzman
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Lethal Violence ◽  
Northern Kenya ◽  
Perpetrators And Victims ◽  
Interethnic Violence ◽  
Violent Events

One of the most disturbing spectacles of recent decades has been brutal acts of violence—indeed genocide—between groups who had long lived together in relative peace. In such cases lethal violence is the product not of some far away and unseen hand but rather the hand of your neighbor, someone who before some unforeseen event was perhaps even your friend. Employing multi-sited and multi-vocal ethnography, the book examines how peaceful neighbors become transformed into perpetrators and victims of lethal violence. It engages with a set of interlocking Kenyan case studies, focusing on sometimes-peaceful, sometimes violent interactions between Samburu herders and neighboring groups, interweaving Samburu narratives of key violent events with the narratives of neighboring groups on the other side of the same encounters. The book is, on one hand, an ethnography of particular people in a particular place, vividly portraying the complex and confusing dynamics of interethnic violence principally through the lives, words and intimate experiences of individuals variously involved in and affected by these conflicts. At the same time, it aims to use this particular case study to illustrate how the dynamics in northern Kenya may provide comparative insights to well-known, compelling contexts of violence around the globe.

Sensing ‘Subtle Spirituality’ among Environmentalists

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 344-367
Author(s):  
Irene Becci ◽  
Christophe Monnot ◽  
Boris Wernli
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Quantitative Studies ◽  
Practice Meditation ◽  
The One

This article examines the emergence, in the Swiss context, of a new category of ecologically oriented ‘spiritual’ activists. The authors look at empirical studies conducted internationally on the link between religion and environmentalism and argue that ‘spiritually oriented activists’ are rarely investigated in quantitative studies. The authors then examine the findings of a case study of local milieus in two Swiss cities and nationwide data collected as part of the Swiss Household Panel (SHP). They close the gap between results coming from case studies, on the one hand, and representative studies, on the other, by introducing the variable of spirituality into quantitative research. The results suggest that an ecological milieu is emerging comprised of people who are located politically on the left, do not self-identify as religious, but nonetheless practice meditation and have holistic feelings. The forms of spirituality practiced by these ecologists are ‘subtle’ in the sense of being adaptable, located in the background, and supportive of sustainability.

The Significance of Emphasis in Latina Case Study from Caesar's Bellum Gallicum

1992 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mollie ◽  
John Dixon
Keyword(s):  
Word Order ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
The Other ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Bellum Gallicum ◽  
General Linguistics ◽  
The One

As a contribution to the study of ‘Latin in use’, we focus in this article on the ways a writer indicates what s/he wants to emphasize within the sentence; the specific linguistic signs s/he uses to that end; and the range of effects that these may have for an alert reader. We have used, on the one hand, recent developments in the study of narrative, discourse and general linguistics and, on the other, the work of earlier pioneers in the field of word order in Latin.

Metallurgical Failure Analysis-Few Case Studies

2012 ◽  
Vol 710 ◽  
pp. 695-700
Author(s):  
Sushant K. Manwatkar ◽  
M. Swathi Kiranmayee ◽  
Abhay Kumar Jha ◽  
P. Ramesh Narayanan ◽  
K. Sreekumar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Failure Analysis ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Material Science ◽  
Material Selection ◽  
Fatigue Loading ◽  
The Other ◽  
Induced Stress ◽  
Analytical Tools ◽  
Causes Of Failure

Advancement in material science has reached great heights both in terms of development and properties but still failures continue to happen. Failure is often accompanied by economic and human loss. Failures generally occur due to error of knowledge, error of performance and error of intent which comprises improper design and/or material selection, deficiency in processing and assembly. Failure analyst plays an important role in evaluating the causes of failure by using various analytical tools to arrive at the conclusion and suggests remedies to avoid its reoccurrence. This paper highlights the important steps in failure analysis with a few case studies demonstrated. Case studies include the failure of plumbing tube used in engine gimbal control system of liquid propulsion system, where failure was initiated due to process deficiency and its propagation was facilitated under fatigue loading. In the other case study discussed, failure of steel fasteners was due to hydrogen induced stress corrosion cracking (HISCC).

scholarly journals Computational Restrictions on Interative Prosodic Processes

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hossep Dolatian ◽  
Nate Koser ◽  
Jonathan Rawski ◽  
Kristina Strother-Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Point ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Secondary Stress ◽  
Arabic Dialects

We demonstrate a computational restriction on iterative prosody in phonology by using logical transductions. We show that the typology is fundamentally local but requires output recursion, formulated via quantifier-free transductions and least-fixed-point operators, respectively. We focus on two case studies from iterative prosody. One is iterative secondary stress. The other is more complex: iterative syllabification and epenthesis in Arabic dialects. The second case study involves formalizing Ito (1989)'s analysis of directional syllabification.

scholarly journals E-BOOKS IN ACADEMIC LAW LIBRARY: AN OVERVIEW OF THE USERS’ REQUIREMENT AND CURRENT SITUATION

2018 ◽  
pp. 67-73
Author(s):  
Atul Bhatt
Keyword(s):  
Current Situation ◽  
Collection Development ◽  
Online Databases ◽  
Library Resource ◽  
Library Users ◽  
Library Resources ◽  
Law Library ◽  
Current Practices

The advancement of latest ICT based technology in publishing has brought the attention of law librarians to rethink the current practices of collection development and need to focus on uses’ needs and make appropriate steps to develop library resources towards conventional resources / non conventional resources. Now-a-days users’ perceptions on e-resources are well known in academia. This paper is case study of academic law library which examined the current situation of E-books and the users’ expectation of towards E-books at Library Resource Centre, Institute of Law, Nirma University, (ILNU Library). ILNU Library is subscribing more than 13 online databases and some of database provides access of E-books. Users’ survey has been conducted to hear valued ILNU Library users’ on their expectations towards library resources and services and based on study suggestions recommended. The results and suggestions of this study will be useful for Law Librarians in their collection development.

Growing theory for practice: empirical multimodality beyond the case study

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Bateman
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Multimodal Communication ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
The Core ◽  
Corpus Studies ◽  
Recent Developments

Abstract Many studies investigating the use and effectiveness of multimodal communication are now confronting the need to engage with larger bodies of data in order to achieve more empirically robust accounts, moving beyond the earlier prevalence of small-scale ‘case studies’. In this article, I briefly characterise how recent developments in the theory of multimodality can be drawn upon to encourage and support this change in both scale and breadth. In particular, the contribution will show how refinements in the degree of formality of definitions of the core multimodal constructs of ‘semiotic mode’ and ‘materiality’ can help bridge the gap between exploratory investigations of complex multimodal practices and larger-scale corpus studies.

The Grammar of Expressivity

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Gutzmann
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Indirect Evidence ◽  
The Other ◽  
Semantic Interpretation ◽  
Expressive Function ◽  
Syntactic Feature ◽  
Syntactic Features ◽  
Semantics And Pragmatics ◽  
Recent Developments

While the expressive function of natural language has received much attention in recent years, the role grammar plays in the interpretation of expressive items has mainly been neglected in the semantic and pragmatic literature. On the other hand, while there have been syntactic studies of some expressive phenomena they do not explicitly connect to recent developments in semantics. This book bridges this gap, showing that semantics and pragmatics alone cannot capture all grammatical particularities of expressive items and that expressivity has strong syntactic reflexes that interact with the semantic interpretation and account for the mismatches between the syntax and semantics of these phenomena. The main thesis he argues for—the hypothesis of expressive syntax—is that expressivity is a syntactic feature, on a par with other established syntactic features like tense or gender. Evidence for this claim is drawn from three detailed case studies of expressive phenomena: expressive adjectives, expressive intensifiers, and expressive vocatives. These expressions exhibit some puzzling properties and by developing an account of them employing minimalist approaches to syntactic features and agreement, the author shows that expressivity, as a syntactic feature, can partake in agreement operations, trigger movement, and syntactically be selected for. This not only provides indirect evidence for the hypothesis of expressive syntax and extends the usefulness of operations on syntactic features operation beyond their traditional domains, but also highlights the hidden role grammar may play for phenomena that are often considered to be solely semantic in nature.

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