Critical Analysis of Strategies for PM Reduction in Urban Areas

I am interested in a decolonial reading of African vernacular rooted sculptures of selected contemporary South African and Nigerian artists and compares them. Although vernacular arts were produced in indigenous or traditional African arts context, there are still several forms of vernacular art practices jostling for space with canonical modes in contemporary art in various African contexts. However, I argue that the contemporary representations of cultural imagery and symbols from indigenous cultures or urban areas in South Africa and Nigeria suggest a different mode of engagement, even though the term vernacular is used to narrate them as a rethink in narrating art practices. Therefore, my paper argues that even though contemporary artists from both countries continue to represent cultural imagery (vernacular) in their artworks, they are not a continuation of traditional African art. I adopt formal analysis, cultural history methodologies for the critical analysis of the works of two South African and two Nigerian artists that were purposively selected and compare the ideas that unfold from the interrogations for a wider continental understanding of contemporary issues and artistic trends.

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The Role of Islam in Shaping the Idea of Indonesia

AJIS Academic Journal of Islamic Studies ◽

10.29240/ajis.v4i1.816 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 29

Author(s):

Imanuddin Abil Fida ◽

Benny Prasetiya

Keyword(s):

Urban Areas ◽

Critical Analysis ◽

Textual Analysis ◽

Proper Understanding ◽

Secondary Sources ◽

Library Research ◽

The People ◽

Development Change

This study will describe information that Islam plays a role in influencing the struggle in determining the main ideology of the Indonesian people. Some Indonesian Muslim leaders strive to determine the foundation of the country in studying Indonesian history requires a proper understanding of the role of Islam. Before independence, the movement of Islam in Indonesia was divided into two major currents: traditionalists who developed in the countryside and modernists who grew up in urban areas. The current type of research is critical analysis. This research is based on library research and textual analysis of relevant materials taken from primary and secondary sources on history, development, change and transformation. The results of this study reveal that nationalism does not conflict with Islam and therefore Muslims can apply it in their lives. This is because nationalism can be used to obtain peace among the people whether they are Muslim or non-Muslim. Nationalism will not harm Islam and Muslims in Indonesia because nationalism is part of Islam. They allow the application of man-made laws such as nationalism as long as they are suitable for Muslims. However, their acceptance of Pancasila as a state ideology is a reflection of their commitment to Indonesian nationalism.

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Emerging mitigation needs and sustainable options for solving the arsenic problems of rural and isolated urban areas in Latin America – A critical analysis

Water Research ◽

10.1016/j.watres.2010.04.001 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 44 (19) ◽

pp. 5828-5845 ◽

Cited By ~ 72

Author(s):

Jochen Bundschuh ◽

Marta Litter ◽

Virginia S.T. Ciminelli ◽

María Eugenia Morgada ◽

Lorena Cornejo ◽

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Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Critical Analysis

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A Critical Analysis of Errors Made by Rural and Urban Students in ‘O’ Level Mathematics Paper 1 (4008/1) in Shurugwi and Gweru Districts, Zimbabwe

Asian Journal of Education and e-Learning ◽

10.24203/ajeel.v5i2.4652 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Silvanos Chirume

Keyword(s):

Urban Areas ◽

Critical Analysis ◽

Urban Students ◽

The Body ◽

Rural Students ◽

Psychomotor Skills ◽

Geometric Constructions ◽

Rural And Urban Areas ◽

Body Of Knowledge ◽

Rural And Urban

This study critically investigated and analysed mathematical errors made by forty rural and urban Zimbabwe Ordinary Level students who wrote a test adopted from the ZIMSEC 2012 past examination paper (4008/1). Twenty students at a rural school in Shurugwi District and twenty students of similar characteristics (except for location or district) at an urban school in Gweru District were randomly sampled. Questions 1 and 7 (arithmetic and algebraic manipulations), 2 and 21 (psychomotor skills- measurement, shading, locus and geometric constructions) and 8 and 15 (word problems) were purposively sampled and students’ written and marked scripts were subjected to a critical analysis of errors. The errors were classified into eight categories proposed by Dufresne (2012) and these were error in knowledge, error in skill, error in concept, error in making connections, error in strategy effectiveness, error in convention, error in process and error in format. Mixed methods (QUAL-quan, content and interpretivist) analyses of errors made by the rural students and those made by the urban students were made. The study offers possible strategies that teachers in rural and urban areas can use to rectify students’ mathematical errors in the classroom situation and contributes to the body of knowledge on mathematical error analysis.

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Kurdish Politics in Iran

10.1017/9781009029971 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Allan Hassaniyan

Keyword(s):

Civil Society ◽

Political Parties ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Critical Analysis ◽

The Political ◽

Collective Actions ◽

Rural And Urban Areas ◽

Civil Society Organisations ◽

Rural And Urban ◽

State Relations

Reflecting on seven decades of the Iranian Kurdish movement, this book offers a comprehensive and critical analysis of the politicisation of national sentiments within Iran, and the connections the movement made and developed with Kurdish groups in Iraq. Looking at Kurdish-state relations through events taking place across remote, rural and urban areas in Kurdistan, Allan Hassaniyan analyses nationalist as well as non-nationalist aspects of Kurdish politics and history, reading the evolution of Kurdish nationalism through analysing crossborder Kurdish interaction. Paying particular attention to movement mobilisation and different aspects of the collective actions and insurgency deployed by actors, civil society organisations and the political parties of Iranian Kurds during different phases of the movement, Hassaniyan demonstrates how the ethnonationalist movement of the Iranian Kurds was a product of a discriminatory policy pursued by changing Iranian regimes toward non-Persian and non-Shiite communities in the country, particularly in the second half of the twentieth century.

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