Major Events, State Interference, and Resilience

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk Uffelmann
Keyword(s):  
Open Letter ◽  
Art And Literature ◽  
The Impact ◽  
State Interference

This article elucidates the major events of the late Soviet underground, grouping them by trials (Chertkov’s from 1957, Brodsky’s from 1964, and Sinyavsky and Daniel’s from 1966); repressed exhibitions (the Manège exhibition of 1962 and the “Bulldozer Exhibition” of 1974); and publicity projects (Solzhenitsyn’s open letter to the 4th Congress of the Union of Soviet Writers from 1967 and the almanac Metropol’ in 1978). It argues that an “underground event” emerges through state interference into the sphere of unofficial art and literature, forcing individual members to surface from the underground. While most individual targets of repression were eventually expelled, the diffuse underground communities developed recurrent tactics of resilience. The article rounds off with distilling the patterns of resilience applied in the underground to undo the impact of the repression of the nonvoluntary protagonists of major underground events on others.

scholarly journals Re-Assessment of “Claw-Back” Clauses in the Enforcement of Human and Peoples’ Rights in Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (38) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
William Edward Adjei
Keyword(s):  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Legal Structure ◽  
Strong Principle ◽  
African Charter ◽  
Negative Duty ◽  
The Impact ◽  
State Interference

Abstract One of the continuing problems, which had faced the African Charter, is many of its substantive provisions that are raven with qualifications without reasonable justification. These rights guaranteed under the Charter are subject to “claw-back” clauses that are introduced by governments and public authorities thereby undermining their citizen‟s basic constitutional rights of securing fundamental freedoms. They are those rights that impose negative duty on the state and are meant to promote the values of pluralism, equality and human dignity, which should be enjoyed free from state interference. It is in the interference of these rights that commentators have frequently criticized the African Charter for rendering its protective mandate meaningless and unenforceable. With hindsight, it is evident that the foregoing critique levelled against the “claw-back” clauses under Charter is justified, as they have a chilling effect on the exercise of human and peoples‟ rights on the African continent. Such condition has produced intense academic discussion on the interpretation and implications of the rights and freedoms enshrined in the Charter. None the less, the scope and the significance of the legal measures adopted by the African Commission have minimized the impact of the clauses affected considerably. Accordingly, a strong principle of interpretation adopted by the Commission has contributed to shaping the Charter‟s legal structure in harmony with international human rights law standards.

Referenced reflections to my wurrumay (son): awareness of the impact of colonisation

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 309-314
Author(s):  
Reakeeta Louise Smallwood
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Open Letter ◽  
Cultural Understanding ◽  
Indigenous Voice ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Yaama (Hello)! This article will take you on a journey, through my eyes and my experiences. I hope you are ready to hear, explore and come to understand the context that I am positioned within as a Gamilaroi yinarr (woman) from Australia. I acknowledge Elders, past, present and future. For they have forged the way before us, and they have inspired me to articulate my experiences. In this article I share my Indigenous voice within the academic space with the aim to draw attention to the issue of colonisation and enable cross-cultural understanding. Throughout this article, I have utilised my voice to reference my reflections on the challenges related to colonisation in two distinct formats: an open letter to my sons (as they are my future) and a paper for you, the reader. Within this space, I acknowledge my accountability to myself as a Gamilaroi yinarr, guni (mother) and researcher.

scholarly journals An Open Letter to the owners of the Impact Factor

2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 1227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julián Monge Nájera
Keyword(s):  
Impact Factor ◽  
Open Letter ◽  
The People ◽  
Good Will ◽  
The Impact

I am writing this open letter to you, the people who produce the Impact Factor reports, in good will and because I believe you can improve it.

Political Controversy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan R. Eller
Keyword(s):  
Republican Party ◽  
Full Length ◽  
Open Letter ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Literary Politics ◽  
Political Controversy ◽  
Ray Bradbury ◽  
The Impact

This chapter examines how Ray Bradbury got caught in the bipolar complexities of postwar literary politics. It first considers Bradbury's concern with the foreign and domestic challenges that America faced as the election of 1952 approached, along with his disappointment with liberals over what he perceived as their reluctance to stand up to Joe McCarthy. It then discusses Bradbury's political activities of the period, including his publication of an open letter titled “To the Republican Party” in Daily Variety urging moderate Republicans to maintain a distance from McCarthy, along with two other critical commentaries. It also assesses the impact of Bradbury's letter on his story “The Garbage Man,” as well as his decision to transform “The Fireman” into a full-length novel and expand it into a more fully developed characterization of McCarthyism that would also expose Modernity's more subtle signs of cultural decay.

scholarly journals State Paternalism: from Science to Scientometrics

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 020-036
Author(s):  
Alexander Ya. Rubinstein ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Econometric Model ◽  
Scientometric Indicators ◽  
The Public ◽  
Journal Rankings ◽  
State Paternalism ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The Impact ◽  
State Interference ◽  
Scientific Life

The article presents the results of the study of public opinion in the context of science reforming. The adoption of the Law on the Russian Academy of Sciences has in fact liquidated academic freedoms and consolidated state interference into scientific life by simultaneously escalating the use of Scientometrics. Respondents' assessments of the use of Scientometric indicators and journal rankings indicate that most economists do not trust the Scientometric tools. Based on the results of a sociological survey of the community of economists in 2020, the article concludes that there is a "managerial failure" of the paternalistic state. An analysis of the Scientometric indicators used in Scopus is also presented, including three well-known metrics: CiteScore", SNIP, and SCImago (SJR). In addition to the description of the sample of journals and the scale of monitoring, the author presents the criterion of ranking the journals MWR and the algorithm of its definition in comparison with the SJR indicator in Scopus. The final part of the paper discusses the econometric model based on the hypothesis that there are links between the ranking of journals, obtained on the basis of a sociological survey of economists, and the estimates of the "usefulness" of the introduction of relevant Scientometric indicators by the same respondents. The calculations performed have confirmed the formulated hypothesis and allowed to quantitatively measure the impact of the respondents' attitude to Scientometric indicators on the value of private ratings reflecting the Scientific level of the journal, the public prestige of the journal and Interest in the journal publications.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
James Uden
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Roman Empire ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Classical World ◽  
Art And Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
The Impact

The book begins by briefly surveying the origin and history of the word Gothic from the Roman Empire to the first canonical novel of the English Gothic tradition, Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764). It then surveys relevant debates about the classical world and its legacy in eighteenth-century England, including the aftershocks of the French “Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns” and appropriations of classical ideas and images in politics, art, and literature. The Gothic was a “pan-European” phenomenon. Although this book focuses largely on literary works from Britain and America, the allusive connections with Classical literature remind us that the impact of the Gothic was not limited to the English-speaking world.

scholarly journals Waqf and State Interference: A Phenomenology Study in Al-Azhar University, Egypt

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-56
Author(s):  
Agung Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
The Government ◽  
Egyptian Government ◽  
The Impact ◽  
State Interference

This paper was aimed at revealing the Egyptian Government's intervention in the management of Al-Azharwaqf. The data was collected by interviewing officials at the Al-Azhar University in Egypt, officials at the Egyptian Ministry of Education, academics and Waqf researchers in Egypt. The results of this study indicated that Egyptian Government intervened and took over the management of Al-Azharwaqf by issuing laws related to waqf and its management from 1923 to 1971. The impact of the takeover of Al-Azharwaqf management by the State also made Al-Azhar was no longer economically independent and was held hostage by the government.

scholarly journals Flora i fauna kosmiczna Stanisława Lema w przekładzie na język angielski

2020 ◽  
pp. 51-69
Author(s):  
Hanna Salich
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Open Letter ◽  
Animal Names ◽  
Stanislaw Lem ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Universe ◽  
The Way

Stanisław Lem’s Space Flora and Fauna Translated into English The article discusses authorial neologisms coined by Stanislaw Lem and their translation into English on the example of 37 plant and animal names excerpted from the short story entitled Let Us Save the Universe (An Open Letter from Ijon Tichy), which, together with their English equivalents, were subject to comparative analysis. Since these names may create translation problems, the purpose of the analysis was primarily to determine the problem-solving techniques used by the translators, Maria Święcicka-Ziemianek and Joel Stern. Another goal was to make an attempt at explaining their translation choices and to determine the impact of these choices on the way in which the equivalents expressed with neologisms perform their naming function and the function through which they create the narrative world in the target text. Therefore, the article lists the possible causes of translation problems evoked by neologisms and presents the characteristics of the analysed names in terms of translation difficulties they may pose. The analytical material is presented taking into account the relationship between neologisms and their equivalents with the accompanying context and/or illustration. The article provides conclusions on the impact of the techniques used and the elements that determined the final shape of equivalents on the way the naming and creative function of authorial neologisms are reflected in the target text. It also shows the methods of overcoming problems related to translating neologisms into a foreign language.

scholarly journals An Open Letter to All IJEMM Members on COVID–19

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Mohammad Yeakub Ali
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organisation ◽  
World Health ◽  
Open Letter ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Engineering Materials ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Online Web

Dear IJEMM Members I wanted to provide an update to the broader community of International Journal of Engineering Materials and Manufacture (IJEMM) regarding our efforts to alleviate the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. The Editorial Board is deeply sympathised with the people suffering worldwide due the outbreak of pandemic COVID-19. We are closely monitoring the outbreak and implementing social isolation and other measures, according to World Health Organisation guidelines, to mitigate the impact on our members, volunteers and customers around the world. As the safety of people is of highest priority, our aim is to continue delivering our services for editors, reviewers, authors, readers, and other members to the highest possible standards using our online web-based platforms. I trust that each of you is doing well and finding ways to cope with this challenging pandemic situation which is a test from God, the almighty. Please stay safe, do not panic, heighten your spirituality and seek forgiveness. With thanks and regards, Professor Ir. Dr. Mohammad Yeakub AliEditor-In-ChiefInternational Journal of Engineering Materials and Manufacture

scholarly journals «Peeping Tom»: the Impact of a Single Idiom on Modern World Art and Literature

2018 ◽  
pp. 144-147
Author(s):  
Юлия Аликовна Саитбатталова ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Modern World ◽  
Art And Literature ◽  
The Impact
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