Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Chris Heffer
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Political World ◽  
Analytical Purpose

The Introduction identifies what is required for a detailed theoretical framework for analyzing the language and ethics of untruthfulness in situated text. First, the scope of untruthfulness needs to be broad enough to cover perceived actual cases of discursive untruthfulness in the current social and political world without being so broad that it ceases to have analytical purpose. Second, a means of judging the ethical value of the act of untruthfulness and the speaker’s degree of culpability is needed. Finally, one needs to be able to judge acts of untruthfulness in the full complexity of their situated context. Untruthfulness necessarily involves complex relations between word, mind, and world that are not easily accessible to the analytical observer and that necessitate an interdisciplinary approach. The chapter concludes by setting out the central theoretical propositions of the TRUST framework that derive from these needs and that are explored in subsequent chapters.

scholarly journals Setswana proverbs within the institution of lenyalo [marriage]: A critical engagement with the bosadi [womanhood] approach

2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Itumeleng D. Mothoagae
Keyword(s):  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Male Dominance ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge System ◽  
Christian Worldview ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Economic Transaction

Setswana proverbs point to the rich oral history of the Batswana people, their cosmology, morality, indigenous knowledge system, rituals, drama, sayings and memo scripts which are deeply embedded in memory. They emerged from reflections on existential experiences and animal behaviour. In her analysis of Proverbs 31:10�31 found in the Hebrew text, Masenya rereads this text in conjugation with her Northern Sotho proverbs regarding women from a bosadi [womanhood] approach. It is in this approach that she attempts to engage structures of �patriarchy� and the marginalisation of women�s identities. In so doing, the approach grapples with issues such as the mythological thinking of male dominance, cultural subjugation, gender equality, political marginalisation and economic transaction. The decolonial turn as a theoretical framework acknowledges the particularity and universality of cultures and knowledge. Whilst there is particularity among African cultures, there is also universality. In this article I will refer to Setswana proverbs in the context of marriage to engage the bosadi approach. It is the intention of this article to argue that proverbs such as lebitla la mosadi ke bogadi need to be contextualised within their historical location as well as within the context of the institution of lenyalo that is anchored in the practice of bogadi. Furthermore, there is a need to critically engage with terms such as patriarchy, oppression, structure and hierarchy. The paper will use the decolonial turn as a theoretical framework. A conclusion will be drawn from the discussion above.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: This article has an interdisciplinary approach, it touches on Historical analysis of Setswana Proverbs, the missionary era and the transition between �Setswana traditional� worldview and �Euro-Christian� worldview. Furthermore, it pertains to the understanding of the Proverbs within the custom of Lenyalo (marriage), boarders between anthropological, sociological and African philosophy approaches. The fundamental theoretical approaches used in this article is translational theory and decolonial turn, which is social sciences.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. xviii-22
Author(s):  
Milija Gluhovic ◽  
Silvija Jestrovic ◽  
Shirin Rai ◽  
Michael Saward
Keyword(s):  
Performance Studies ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
First Century ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Political World ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Key Terms ◽  
A Current

Beginning with two vivid examples that illustrate the Handbook’s core arguments—that politics is performative, performance is political, and that both of these matter to understanding our worlds—the introduction provides a current, contextual account of the shared syntax of politics and performance. It defines key terms, such as politics, performance, theatricality, and performativity, that inform the Handbook contributions. Through accessible and provocative engagements with new ways of thinking about politics and performance in both disciplinary and interdisciplinary modes, the introduction shows that these categories are interwoven and entangled in complex and consequential ways. It outlines the states of the art in theater and performance studies and politics, respectively, capturing key points of interconnection between these discourses in order to build on, extend, and reshape interdisciplinary conversations. Finally, it reflects on key challenges and opportunities that attend bringing the two broad fields together for mutual enrichment and building a new, hybrid field of study. Underlining the co-constitutive nature of performance and politics, the introduction suggests that such a framework is critical to promoting an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the complex political world of the twenty-first century.

scholarly journals Neurophenomenology and Intersubjectivity: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Axiomathes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirko Di Bernardo
Keyword(s):  
Mirror Neurons ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Interdisciplinary Perspective ◽  
Interpersonal Experience

AbstractThe article aims to provide the main conceptual coordinates in order to fully understand the state of the art of the most recent research in the field of neurobiology of interpersonal experience. The main purpose of this work is to analyze, at an anthropological, phenomenological and epistemological level, how the fundamental characteristics of the recognition of otherness and intercorporeity among human beings contribute to changing the image of nature in the light of a possible new relationship between living bodies, neurophysiological systems and empathy. From this point of view, the hypothesis to investigate is that neurophenomenology, understood as a new evolutionary, multidimensional and autopoietic approach, is capable of probing the preconditions of the possible delineation of a phenomenology of intersubjectivity shaped by the neuroscientific turning point, represented by the discovery of mirror neurons. At this level, the neuroscientific data are interpreted according to a specific interdisciplinary perspective, thus trying to offer a possible unitary and integrated theoretical framework.

scholarly journals Bad Machinery and the Economics of Free Comics: A Webcomic Case Study

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paddy Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Commercial Activities ◽  
Comics Studies ◽  
The Uk

 John Allison is one of a small number of alternative cartoonists in the UK today earning a living from their cartooning. However, since he began his first webcomic, Bobbins, in 1998, he has given all of his comics content away for free online. This article presents John Allison’s comics, most notably his series Bad Machinery, as a case study of how to make free webcomics an economically viable labour, achieved by Allison’s use of webcomics as a springboard for other commercial activities such as illustration work and printed comics. Taking an interdisciplinary approach consistent with the wider field of Comics Studies, this article draws upon concepts from sociology, literary criticism and economics to provide a theoretical framework through which to understand webcomics as labour, and thus to understand through this reading the economics of free webcomics, with John Allison as the exemplary web cartoonist. 

scholarly journals The Legal Environments of Organized Civil Society in Nineteen Democracies

2018 ◽  
pp. 192-230
Author(s):  
Nicole Bolleyer
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Voluntary Sector ◽  
Voluntary Organizations ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
Systemic Condition

As the nature of legal environments for organized civil society is the product of causally complex processes, it is not expected that any one systemic condition by itself underpins a particular legal environment. Consequently, the analysis presented employs Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), which is ideally suited to identify multiple, complex paths towards a particular outcome. The findings widely substantiate the theoretical framework presented in Chapter 6 and thereby stress the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to the question at hand. They show that the nature of voluntary organizations’ legal environments adopted in long-lived democracies varies with the relative acceptability of constraining regulation in that sphere, which, in turn, is shaped by distinct configurations of political systems’ democratic history, their legal family, and voluntary sector traditions.

The Principle of Proportionality, Article 8 of the ECHR and Swedish Care Orders in Cases of Neglect. A Sketch of a Theoretical Framework

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-22
Author(s):  
Katarina Alexius
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Equal Treatment ◽  
Legal Certainty ◽  
Text Documents ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Abuse And Neglect ◽  
Principle Of Proportionality

This study conducts an analysis of the rights in article 8 of the ECHR and the application of the proportionality principle when Swedish care orders may be regarded as a necessary interference in family life. The study has been based on an interdisciplinary approach. Text documents were studied through socio-legal methods and perspectives, by combining knowledge from legal sources and social sciences research through a content analysis derived from formal and substantive legal certainty. The article concludes that reasoning in Swedish administrative courts should routinely consider proportionality in cases of neglect, and sets out to sketch a theoretical framework for the principle of proportionality in decisions on care orders. The results show that, since decisions in child welfare cases cannot be made completely uniform and predictable, the focus of decisions in social child welfare work must be to satisfy the objectives and values of substantive legal certainty, instead of unrealistically striving for formal legal certainty through equal treatment and predictability. The results also show that, by requiring those who exercise public authority to present their assessments based on proportionality, new demands are made for the quality and efficiency of involuntary out-of-home placements. Child welfare investigations should nowadays include impact assessments that clarify the advantages and disadvantages of the care in relation to the risk of harm from the original home conditions. Abuse and neglect in out-of-home placements will therefore be of growing importance in decisions on care orders in the future.

Understanding Cosmo-Literature

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-202
Author(s):  
Reham Hosny
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Global Village ◽  
Political World ◽  
Central Objective ◽  
Neil Gaiman ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Difference

Abstract The central objective of this paper is to provide a new conceptual theoretical framework starting from the role of new new media in shaping a new kind of literature, which I call Cosmo-Literature. Towards this, I start working from Levinson’s differentiation among old media, new media, and new new media to arrive at the difference among the variable types of media. Next, I address the role of new new media in establishing world democracies and changing the social, cultural, and political world map. After that, I investigate the terms of “global village” and “cosmopolitanism” in relation to literature. To clarify what I mean by Cosmo Literature, I will investigate two new new media novels: Only One Millimeter Away, an Arabic Facebook novel by the Moroccan novelist Abdel-Wahid Stitu, and Hearts, Keys and Puppetry an English Twitter novel by Neil Gaiman, to infer the characteristics of Cosmo-Literature in general and Cosmo narration in particular.

Designing digital educational resources to facilitate learning for second language students

2021 ◽  
pp. 151-172
Author(s):  
Thierry GEOFFRE ◽  
Nathalie DHERBEY CHAPUIS
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Teaching Tools ◽  
Regular Classrooms ◽  
Learning Pathways ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Language Students ◽  
Teaching Learning

The number of students who struggle to execute reading comprehension tasks raises in Europe, questioning the relevance and effectiveness of the teaching methods implemented in regular classrooms. In Switzerland, students of French as a second language appear to be particularly at risk of encountering such difficulties. This motivates studies to investigate the specific difficulties in manipulating the language of schooling they may face. This study presents a discussion about teaching tools based on research findings in didactics, psycholinguistics and applied linguistics. This interdisciplinary approach leads us to propose a theoretical framework for 1) considering the specific needs of second language students and 2) developing digital tools to promote the literacy of these students in an inclusive teaching environment which may be in fact suitable for all students. We aim to develop a didactic ontology that will allow us to create customisable and automatically adaptable teaching-learning pathways.

scholarly journals LA NARRATIVA DE JAVIER MARÍAS EN DIÁLOGO CON EL CINE. CONFLUENCIAS ESTÉTICAS Y HORIZONTES POSIBLES

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 575
Author(s):  
Carmen María LÓPEZ LÓPEZ
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Literary Studies

Resumen: El artículo estudia la presencia del cine en distintas novelas de Javier Marías. Esta presencia puede apreciarse no solo en temas y personajes, sino también en referencias explícitas que están involucradas en el centro de la trama. Además de ofrecer un marco teórico acerca de los límites y desafíos de los estudios fílmicos y literarios, el artículo proporciona un análisis los elementos cinematográficos en sus novelas. En síntesis, el estudio pretende llenar un hueco en este enfoque interdisciplinar al que la crítica especializada aún no ha dedicado una reflexión minuciosa.Abstract: The article studies the presence of cinema in several novels by Javier Marías. This presence is detected not only in topics and characters, but also in explicit references which are central to the plot. As well as providing a theoretical framework about the limits and challenges of filmic and literary studies, the article provides an analysis of the cinematic elements in his novels. In synthesis, the study aims to fill a gap in this interdisciplinary approach to which critics haves not yet paid enough attention.

Mind wandering as data augmentation: How mental travel supports abstraction

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myrthe Faber
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Data Augmentation ◽  
Mental Content ◽  
Mind Wandering ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Important Addition

Abstract Gilead et al. state that abstraction supports mental travel, and that mental travel critically relies on abstraction. I propose an important addition to this theoretical framework, namely that mental travel might also support abstraction. Specifically, I argue that spontaneous mental travel (mind wandering), much like data augmentation in machine learning, provides variability in mental content and context necessary for abstraction.

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