Behind the Veil of the Old

2021 ◽  
pp. 144-170
Author(s):  
Yigal Bronner
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Intellectual Traditions ◽  
The Will ◽  
Comparative Case Studies ◽  
The Veil

This chapter begins by surveying the petering out of the debate over sequence in interpretation in seventeenth-century India and speculating about the reasons for its decline. At this point, the chapter returns to the broad question of innovation with which this book began, and places the story in the context of the “New Intellectuals” in South Asia and that of a few comparative case studies in order to present a broader survey of modes of novelty in scholastic traditions. The rhetorical stance of traditionalism that masks substantive innovation in the book's main case study has significant parallels in other intellectual traditions, suggesting a larger pattern that may merit further investigation. The “oldness of the will” discussed in chapter 1 may be only a pretense, after all, and a new one at that.

Magnetic Current Imaging Techniques: Comparative Case Studies

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivier Crépel ◽  
Philippe Descamps ◽  
Patrick Poirier ◽  
Romain Desplats ◽  
Philippe Perdu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Integrated Circuits ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Flip Chip ◽  
Imaging Techniques ◽  
Optimal Domain ◽  
Magnetic Current ◽  
Comparative Case Studies ◽  
Current Flows

Abstract Magnetic field based techniques have shown great capabilities for investigation of current flows in integrated circuits (ICs). After reviewing the performances of SQUID, GMR (hard disk head technologies) and MTJ existing sensors, we will present results obtained on various case studies. This comparison will show the benefit of each approach according to each case study (packaged devices, flip-chip circuits, …). Finally we will discuss on the obtained results to classify current techniques, optimal domain of applications and advantages.

Introduction

Leftovers ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Ruth Cruickshank
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Global Market ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Critical Material ◽  
Culturally Specific ◽  
Food And Drink ◽  
Post War ◽  
Market Economics

The introduction establishes the untapped interpretative potential bound up with food and drink and representations of it. An extraordinary nexus of post-war French thought that uses or is legible through figures of eating and drinking is identified, along with the new critical combinations which here provide a framework for re-thinking eating and drinking in four case-study novels. The conventional literary potential of food and drink is established, before introducing the contrasting novels which exceed those conventions. These are well-known, prize-winning works, all translated into English. They are self-consciously literary and differently theoretically-informed about intersecting questions of language, trauma, gender, class, race and global market economics. Chapter 1 is introduced as providing a flexible critical apparatus for the ensuing case studies and as a suggestive tool for re-thinking representations of eating and drinking in other genres or media. Optimizing accessibility, case studies can be read singly or severally (references to relevant sections of Chapter 1 are provided), and the novel, writer and any relevant critical material are introduced before re-thinking the representations of food and drink in each post-war French fiction. Thus, culturally-specific insights emerge together with a springboard for examining leftover interpretations in other forms of representational practice from other times and places.

scholarly journals Brand Islam

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-108
Author(s):  
Sophia R. Arjana
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
White Male ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Extensive Survey ◽  
The Veil ◽  
Material Religion

Brand Islam: The Marketing and Commodification of Piety examines thegrowing business of Muslim merchandise, ranging from food products consideredḥalāl (permissible) to children’s dolls that represent devout Muslimbehavior through sartorial choices such as modest clothing and the wearingof the veil. Faegheh Shirazi illustrates how a growing Muslim marketoften intersects, in both problematic and intriguing ways, with capitalism.Using an extensive survey of case studies, illustrations, and diverse Muslimcommunities (Iran and Indonesia are often cited), the book provides a usefulexploration of the question of Muslim consumption and contributes tolarger discussions surrounding material religion. In chapter 1, Shirazi begins her investigation into these topics by discussingthe problem of Islamophobia and how it may influence Muslimsto seek out markers of religious identity, thus influencing the market. Herdefinitions of xenophobia, Islamophobia, and Islamoparanoia are useful,although I felt myself wanting a richer discussion of how these trends intersectwith white supremacy, colonial politics, and misogyny. Symbols—especially the veil and the mosque—can be used, as other scholars haveshown, to generate anxiety in non-Muslim populations. Although Shiraziis less interested in how these symbols are used to shore up white, male,Christian, or secular authority, she employs them to show the ways inwhich Islamophobia and radical, literalist Islamic rhetoric feed off eachother. The manipulation of this rhetoric is even used when non-Muslimsmake concessions in an effort to improve relations with Muslims, such asQueen Elizabeth’s 2010 visit to the UAE, when she covered her hair. AsShirazi points out, “Sheikh Yasser Burhani, one of Egypt’s leading Islamicscholars, jumped on the queen’s gesture as justification for furthering an oppressive,fundamentalist Salafi Islamic position” (p. 32). The ways in whichthe body—in this case a white, regal body—is used in debates surroundingIslam and modernity is at the crux of this book ...

scholarly journals Between Sin and Salvation: The Seventeenth-Century Dutch Artisan Pieter Plockhoy and His Ethics of Work

2011 ◽  
Vol 56 (S19) ◽  
pp. 69-88
Author(s):  
Henk Looijesteijn
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Central Component ◽  
Stepping Stones ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Comprehensive Study

SummaryThere have been few attempts systematically to study the ethics of work in the early modern age on the basis of contemporary sources. Such a study should start with case studies of individual thinkers, as stepping stones to a more comprehensive study of the ethics of work. This article provides such a case study, of the seventeenth-century Dutch artisan Pieter Plockhoy (c.1620–1664). As will be shown, work was a central component of Plockhoy's philosophy of true, practical Christianity, and on the basis of his tracts a more or less coherent ethics of work can be reconstructed. Although this article concentrates on Plockhoy's philosophy of labour, his thought fits into a broader context of related contemporary thinkers, many of whom shared his concerns. Thus the article shows that for scholars wishing to study the ethics of work there is still a whole field which, though yielding a potentially rich harvest, lies fallow.

Scandal

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-48
Author(s):  
Leslie Dorrough Smith
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Bill Clinton ◽  
Hillary Clinton ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Moral Failure ◽  
Sex Scandals

Chapter 1 examines the concept of sex scandals as they are commonly treated in current scholarship. The two most dominant models view them as (a) moments of social harm caused by a leader’s moral failure (case studies include the scandals of Larry Craig, David Petraeus, and John Edwards); or (b) violations of social norms regarding gender, race, and class (as exemplified by Bill Clinton in the Monica Lewinsky scandal). Yet the chapter’s main case study is Donald Trump. Trump’s white, sexual persona boosted his political appeal and impacted his rhetoric in the 2016 campaign, particularly in his gendered and sexed speech regarding Hillary Clinton. In light of Trump, a third model is proposed that understands sex scandals as specifically nationalist events that draw on the aforementioned identity categories of gender, race, and sexual orientation in determining who can be considered a national icon.

Trade, Exoticism and the English Appropriation of South Asian Pickles, c. 1600–1750

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-122
Author(s):  
Anil Paralkar
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
South Asia ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Processed Food ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Preparation Methods ◽  
The Third

South Asian pickles, or achar, were the first processed food to arrive from the subcontinent to Europe. While the earliest European references stem from Portuguese texts of the sixteenth century, evidence of cooking instructions date from the second half of the seventeenth century. Utilizing sources like botanical literature, travelogues, and recipes, this paper focuses on the introduction of achar to England in between 1600 to 1750. The first part investigates the initial trade of these pickles to Europe, in particular to England. The second part discusses how English authors developed an understanding of achar, which promoted the use of certain ingredients and preparation methods. This understanding did not account for the multiple diverging types of achar in South Asia, but represented an essentialized concept of the dish, which found its expression in English achar-recipes. The third part argues that this style of achar constituted an appropriation of the food, as it was adapted to European tastes and made ‘exotic’ enough but not too ‘exotic’ for the English palate. Thus, this article offers a case study on the introduction of South Asian food to England, which shows the power structures involved in global culinary exchanges.

Rational Deterrence Theory and Comparative Case Studies

1989 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher H. Achen ◽  
Duncan Snidal
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Prior Knowledge ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Deterrence Theory ◽  
Middle Range ◽  
Comparative Case Studies ◽  
Empirical Generalizations ◽  
Tests Of Hypotheses

Several recent books have argued that comparative case studies of crises demonstrate the failure of rational-deterrence theory; they have offered certain empirical generalizations as substitutes. This paper shows that such contentions are unwarranted. First, the empirical generalizations are impressive as historical insights, but they do not meet the standards for theory set out by the most sophisticated case-study analysts themselves. Second, the “tests” of rational deterrence used in the case studies violate standard principles of inference, and the ensuing procedures are so biased as to be useless. Rational deterrence, then, is a more successful theory than portrayed in this literature, and it remains the only intellectually powerful alternative available.Case studies are essential to theory building: more efficiently than any other methods, they find suitable variables, suggest middle-range generalizations for theory to explain, and provide the prior knowledge that statistical tests require. Their loose constraints on admissible propositions and suitable evidence are appropriate and even necessary for these tasks. These same characteristics, however, inevitably undermine all attempts to construe case-study generalizations as bodies of theory or tests of hypotheses.

scholarly journals Comparative case studies on ring gear fault diagnosis of planetary gearboxes using vibrations and acoustic emissions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Félix Leaman ◽  
Ralph Baltes ◽  
Elisabeth Clausen
Keyword(s):  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Vibration Analysis ◽  
Acoustic Emissions ◽  
Wind Turbine Gearbox ◽  
Planetary Gearbox ◽  
Vibration Sensors ◽  
Comparative Case Studies

AbstractThe analysis of vibrations and acoustic emissions (AE) are two recognized non-destructive techniques used for machine fault diagnosis. In recent years, the two techniques have been comparatively evaluated by different researchers with experimental tests. Several evaluations have shown that the AE analysis has a higher potential than the vibration analysis for fault diagnosis of mechanical components for certain cases. However, the distance between the AE sensor and the fault is an important factor that can considerably decrease the potential to detect damage and that has not been sufficiently investigated. Moreover, the comparisons have not yet addressed conditions of slow speed that for example are usual for wind turbine gearboxes. Therefore, in this paper we present two comparative case studies that address both topics. Both case studies consider planetary gearboxes with faults in their ring gears. The first case study corresponds to a small planetary gearbox in which the AE and vibration sensors were installed together at two different positions. The second case study corresponds to a full-size wind turbine gearbox in which three pairs of AE and vibration sensors were installed on the outside of the ring gear from a low-speed planetary stage. The results of the evaluations demonstrate the important influence of the distance between sensors and fault. Despite this, the good results from the AE analysis indicate that this technique should be considered as an important complement to the traditional vibration analysis. The main contribution of this paper is comparing AE and vibration analysis by using not only experimental data from a small planetary gearbox but also from a full-size wind turbine gearbox. The comparison addresses the topics of proximity of the sensor to the fault and low-speed conditions.

Natural locations and the distinction between ‘what’ and ‘where’ concepts: Evidence from differential locative marking in Makalero

Linguistics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 477-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliette Huber
Keyword(s):  
Internal Structure ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Spatial Relations ◽  
East Timor ◽  
The World ◽  
Comparative Case Studies ◽  
Specific Construction

Abstract Differential locative marking is found in languages all over the world. Toponyms, in particular, are well known to often require less locative marking than other types of nouns, and it has been suggested that they express ‘where’ concepts. This paper presents a case study of differential locative marking in Makalero, a Papuan language of East Timor, where nouns fall into three categories: those which need no overt locative marking, i.e., can be zero-marked; those which are used with a semantically general locative verb; and those which can only be used with semantically specific locative verbs. Zero-marking of spatial relations occurs only in a specific construction where the nouns in question are used predicatively, suggesting that the syntactic equivalent of the ‘where’ category is a relational expression, not a noun. There is furthermore a certain degree of flexibility in Makalero locative constructions, and alternative expressions result in predictable semantic differences. These differences show that the lack of perceptual boundaries and of an internal structure are important parameters that distinguish the referents of so-called natural location nouns from nouns which denote ‘what’ concepts. More comparative case studies are needed to enrich our understanding of these notions and the properties characterizing them.

scholarly journals Comparative Case Studies: An Innovative Approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesley Bartlett ◽  
Frances Vavrus
Keyword(s):  
International Education ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Study Research ◽  
Comparative And International Education ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Comparative Case Studies

What is a case study and what is it good for? In this article, we argue for a new approach—the comparative case study approach—that attends simultaneously to macro, meso, and micro dimensions of case-based research. The approach engages two logics of comparison: first, the more common compare and contrast; and second, a ‘tracing across’ sites or scales. As we explicate our approach, we also contrast it to traditional case study research. We contend that new approaches are necessitated by conceptual shifts in the social sciences, specifically in relation to culture, context, space, place, and comparison itself. We propose that comparative case studies should attend to three axes: horizontal, vertical, and transversal comparison. We conclude by arguing that this revision has the potential to strengthen and enhance case study research in Comparative and International Education, clarifying the unique contributions of qualitative research.

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