scholarly journals Homenagem: Remembering the Life and Work of Abdias Nascimento

2021 ◽  
pp. 002193472110115
Author(s):  
Keisha-Khan Y. Perry ◽  
Anani Dzidzienyo
Keyword(s):  
Military Service ◽  
Black Studies ◽  
Central Component ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Art And Politics ◽  
Black Politicians ◽  
Brown University ◽  
Black World ◽  
The Relationship

This essay provides a brief introduction to this special issue focused on the life and work of Black Brazilian scholar-activist Abdias Nascimento. The contributors include, Vera Lucia Benedito, Ollie Johnson, Zachary Morgan, Elisa Larkin Nascimento, and Cheryl Sterling who all participated in a 2015 conference at Africana Studies at Brown University. This group of scholars aptly illustrate that Nascimento had long contributed to the internationalization of Black Studies as a field in US academe and he was crucial in establishing Brazil as a central component of the Black World. The essays have much to teach us about Nascimento’s views on the relationship between art and politics, the role of military service in shaping his activism, the significance of black politicians in the reconceptualization of Brazilian democracy, and the importance of preserving archives and expanding our understanding of the Black radical tradition.

Religion and the Military

2018 ◽  
pp. 535-552
Author(s):  
Leana A. Bouffard ◽  
Haerim Jin
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Criminal Justice Policy ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Period Effects ◽  
Offending Patterns ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter provides an overview of the literature examining the role of religion and military service in the desistance process. It also identifies outstanding issues and directions for future research. It first presents an overview of research examining the role of religion in desistance and highlights measurement issues, potential intervening mechanisms, and a consideration of faith-based programs as criminal justice policy. Next, this chapter covers the relationship between military service and offending patterns, including period effects that explain variation in the relationship, selection effects, and the incorporation of military factors in criminal justice policy and programming. The chapter concludes by highlighting general conclusions from these two bodies of research and questions to be considered in future research.

Colonialism with benefits? Singaporean peoplehood and colonial contradiction

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 632-644
Author(s):  
Philip Holden
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Subject Formation ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Individual Subject ◽  
Recent Immigrants ◽  
American Political Scientist ◽  
The Relationship

Most of the research presented in this special issue questions the notion of a singular Singaporean story, and yet this narrative persists as a form of Gramscian common sense for most Singaporeans, whether young or old, and also for recent immigrants and international commentators. To understand the reasons for this persistence, I turn to American political scientist Rogers M. Smith's concept of narratives of peoplehood, and in particular his notion of ethically constitutive stories that are central to individual subject formation. The role of the colonial past in such stories of Singapore is contradictory, in that the relationship between colonialism and the nation-state is seen simultaneously in terms of rupture and continuity, and this conceals a further contradiction in terms of the relationship between individual and the collective. In exploring these contradictions, and in tracing reparative possibilities for new stories of peoplehood, I will, in conclusion, turn to recent literary narratives, and in particular recent historical speculative fiction that revisions the colonial past.

scholarly journals Editorial Introduction: Re-envisioning Education in a Globalizing World

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-209
Author(s):  
Hiro Saito
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Happy Life ◽  
Critical Knowledge ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Globalizing World ◽  
The Relationship

This special issue focuses on education as a crucial factor mediating the relationship between youth and globalization. Specifically, four papers collectively explore how education can be re-envisioned from the following vantage point: the use of technology to foreground the fundamentally interconnected nature of today’s world; the help of mindfulness to deepen the awareness of such interconnectedness and cultivate a commitment to collective well-being; the role of activism to produce more critical knowledge and transformational solidarity for social justice on a global scale; at the same time, the necessity of reflexivity to examine one’s own ontological and epistemological assumptions before attempting any educational intervention. I argue that this vantage point helps re-envision the existing institutions and practices of education to encourage young people in a globalizing world to learn to live a happy life together by embracing their pluriversal coexistence.

scholarly journals Comparative Biology of Centrosomal Structures in Eukaryotes

Cells ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 202
Author(s):  
Ralph Gräf
Keyword(s):  
Eukaryotic Cell ◽  
Spindle Pole ◽  
Comparative Biology ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Microtubule Organization ◽  
Spindle Pole Bodies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The centrosome is not only the largest and most sophisticated protein complex within a eukaryotic cell, in the light of evolution, it is also one of its most ancient organelles. This special issue of “Cells” features representatives of three main, structurally divergent centrosome types, i.e., centriole-containing centrosomes, yeast spindle pole bodies (SPBs), and amoebozoan nucleus-associated bodies (NABs). Here, I discuss their evolution and their key-functions in microtubule organization, mitosis, and cytokinesis. Furthermore, I provide a brief history of centrosome research and highlight recently emerged topics, such as the role of centrioles in ciliogenesis, the relationship of centrosomes and centriolar satellites, the integration of centrosomal structures into the nuclear envelope and the involvement of centrosomal components in non-centrosomal microtubule organization.

scholarly journals Introduction: Interrogating the ‘everyday’ politics of emotions in international relations

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Russell Beattie ◽  
Clara Eroukhmanoff ◽  
Naomi Head
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Collective Emotions ◽  
Political Effects ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Politics ◽  
The Relationship

The focus on the everyday in this Special Issue reveals different kinds of emotional practices, their political effects and their political contestation within both micro- and macro-politics in international relations. The articles in this Special Issue address the everyday negotiation of emotions, shifting between the reproduction of hegemonic structures of feelings and emancipation from them. In other words, the everyday politics of emotions allows an exploration of who gets to express emotions, what emotions are perceived as (il)legitimate or (un)desirable, how emotions are circulated and under what circumstances. Consequently, we identify two thematic strands which emerge as central to an interrogation of ‘everyday’ emotions in international relations and which run through each of the contributions: first, an exploration of the relationship between individual and collective emotions and, second, a focus on the role of embodiment within emotions research and its relationship with the dynamics and structures of power.

From implicit to explicit language knowledge in intervention: Introduction to the Special Issue on intervention and metalanguage

2009 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorit Ravid ◽  
Anat Hora
Keyword(s):  
Intervention Studies ◽  
Language Instruction ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Metalinguistic Awareness ◽  
Language And Literacy ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Language Knowledge ◽  
Developmental Psycholinguistics ◽  
The Relationship

The Special Issue is themed on intervention programs which set educational and clinical goals and use explicit language instruction to achieve them. This introduction to the Special Issue explores the non-obvious relationship between intervention, metalinguistics and the study of developmental psycholinguistics. Intervention is typically designed to remedy and accelerate processes that are assumed to be naturally occurring under optimal circumstances. Beyond employing intervention to test hypotheses in developmental cognitive science, most intervention studies are explicitly constructed to improve impaired or non-optimal language skills. The introduction reviews the two major themes of this issue: the problematic yet uniquely efficacious role of intervention studies in gauging the variables that can be modified to improve language and literacy skills; and the origins and nature of metalinguistic awareness in development. The five papers appearing in this Special Issue each highlight a different facet of the relationship between intervention and metalanguage.

scholarly journals Introduction to the Special Issue on Art and Politics

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-73
Author(s):  
Camelia Errouane
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Networks ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Art And Politics ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Relationship

Art and politics are entwined in complex ways. Artworks gain political significance in dynamic networks and social processes that include the artists, the commissioners, their audiences and, not to forget, the historians who study them. This article traces some of the aspects that have defined the relationship between art and politics in Europe since the Enlightenment.

Positioning Oneself in Mathematics Education Research

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatriz D'Ambrosio ◽  
Marilyn Frankenstein ◽  
Rochelle Gutiérrez ◽  
Signe Kastberg ◽  
Danny Bernard Martin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Design Analysis ◽  
Mathematics Education Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Relationship

This dialogue, also extracted from a conversation among members of the Equity Special Issue Editorial Panel, involves the role of a researcher's position in mathematics education. It raises issues about the non-neutrality of research; the relationship between a researcher's identity and the design, analysis, and conclusions of a research study; the benefits for researchers and participants in positioning oneself; and the role of mathematics education in this endeavor.

scholarly journals Diet and Immune Function

Nutrients ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 1933 ◽  
Author(s):  
Childs ◽  
Calder ◽  
Miles
Keyword(s):  
Immune System ◽  
Immune Function ◽  
Clinical Setting ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Immune Mediated ◽  
Immunological Effects ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
The Relationship

A well-functioning immune system is critical for survival. The immune system must be constantly alert, monitoring for signs of invasion or danger. Cells of the immune system must be able to distinguish self from non-self and furthermore discriminate between non-self molecules which are harmful (e.g., those from pathogens) and innocuous non-self molecules (e.g., from food). This Special Issue of Nutrients explores the relationship between diet and nutrients and immune function. In this preface, we outline the key functions of the immune system, and how it interacts with nutrients across the life course, highlighting the work included within this Special Issue. This includes the role of macronutrients, micronutrients, and the gut microbiome in mediating immunological effects. Nutritional modulation of the immune system has applications within the clinical setting, but can also have a role in healthy populations, acting to reduce or delay the onset of immune-mediated chronic diseases. Ongoing research in this field will ultimately lead to a better understanding of the role of diet and nutrients in immune function and will facilitate the use of bespoke nutrition to improve human health.

scholarly journals Jurisdictional perspectives on alternative dispute resolution and access to justice: introduction

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-107
Author(s):  
Lola Akin Ojelabi ◽  
Mary Anne Noone
Keyword(s):  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
Alternative Dispute Resolution ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Law System ◽  
The Family ◽  
Equitable Outcomes ◽  
The Relationship

In many parts of the world, the adoption of alternative dispute-resolution (ADR) processes was premised on creating better access to justice for citizens, particularly those with lesser means (Woolf, 1996; Access to Justice Advisory Committee, 1994). ADR's foundational link with access to justice is in relation to not only justice as a process for the resolution of disputes, but also justice in relation to equality of access and equitable outcomes. This Special Issue focuses on the relationship between ADR and access to justice in various contexts and jurisdictions, including Australia, China, England and Wales, Scotland and Singapore, and within the family-law system in Australia. The papers engage in a critical discussion of ADR's contribution to access to justice in the resolution of disputes and, in particular, the extent to which ADR has contributed to improved access to justice. In doing this, the papers highlight the role of access-to-justice discourse in the development and growth of ADR; where available, review evaluations of access to justice in relation to ADR initiatives; and, finally, reflect on the future of ADR and access to justice.

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