scholarly journals Theme of Loneliness in Anuradha Roy’s The Folded Earth: A Psychological Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 5723-5731
Author(s):  
Shereen Zaidi, Nitin Bhatnagar
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Real Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Psychological Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Long Time ◽  
To Come ◽  
People Today

Loneliness is a feeling in which makes a person feel lack of togetherness with others. In this state, whether a person is alone or in company with others, feels emptiness. If this condition persists for a long time, its consequences can be disastrous, mentally as well as physically. Loneliness is a serious problem of the 21st century and is the cause of suffering for many people today. Many psychologists and scholars have discussed its causes and ways to come out of its cluthes. Anuradha Roy, in her novel “The Folded Earth” has raised the social as well as psychological concerns related to loneliness. The present paper is an attempt to study not only its implications in the novel, but also to explore its causes and ways to deal with in real life. This research can be helpful especially for loners to understand their loneliness and recognize how it can be overcome

Digital Energy

2010 ◽  
pp. 2263-2279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikhail Simonov ◽  
Marco Mussetta ◽  
Riccardo Zich
Keyword(s):  
Distributed Generation ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Electric Energy ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
Novel Method ◽  
Micro Grids

Since energy use is a type of consumer behavior reflecting the interests to maximize some objective function, the human being activities seen in energy terms might be used to create the social aggregations or groups. Electric energy generated from ecologic sources brings some unpredictability. Authors model the unpredictability of the distributed generation in order to create a tool for minimization. Authors propose the novel method to build real life smart micro grids in the distributed generation context characterized by zero emissions. The proposed tool becomes an instrument to create the social aggregation of users and negotiate locally the “social” energy in real time, strengthening and mastering a virtual neighborhood of the local community.

scholarly journals Periferni likovi u romanu U registraturi Ante Kovačića

2021 ◽  
pp. 272-285
Author(s):  
Marijana Terić
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Fantasy Literature ◽  
City Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Fantastic Realism ◽  
The Village ◽  
The City

In this paper, the author examines a work of one of the most significant Croatian literary writers, Ante Kovačić, whose novel U registraturi (In the Registry Office) is considered by many literary critics and theoreticians to be the best writing of Croatian realism. It is an author who was not understood at the time when his work appeared, which is why the text was published in the form of a novel with a twenty-three year delay. Nonlinear composition of the text, elements of fantasy literature and innovative literary process in creating a fabula and sujet course of events confused literary critics as well as readership, which points to the fact that Ante Kovačić was treated for a long time as a peripheral author. In this narrative text, the misery and helplessness of peasants and their revolt against their feudal lords in Croatia are described, therefore the object of our analysis will be the characterisation of figures from various layers of society, with a particular focus on the “peripheral characters” of Kovačić’s prose. Using the term “peripheral characters” we will attempt to bring close those characters of subjugated peasants in relation to the feudal-capitalist social layer and thereby emphasise their role in the novel in relation to their fate. Unlike the characters of the peasants – Ivica Kičmanović (whom the social order turns into a lackey and scoundrel); Jožica Zgubidan (the personification of a poor person from Zagorje), Anica (a patriarchal girl with an angelic face); Miha; Perica; the neighbouring Kanoniks; and the Medonjićes – Kovačić brings us harsh, drastic images of moral vacillations in the city in which figures, distorted into caricatures, dominate. By contrasting the rural environment with the city life, the author is writing an “epopee of the village and city” in which the “peripheral characters” become tragic ones. These characters are the carriers of elements of “fantastic realism,” and their function is to show all the depravities of society and to announce the phenomenon of the innovative processes of narration familiar to authors of the modern literature. Finally, we come to the conclusion that Ante Kovačić made a step forward in relation to the generation of realists, with the peripheral position of his creation disappearing with the emergence of modern literary achievements, which ultimately gives the author and his work a polished place in Croatian literature.

scholarly journals Secrets and Lies: Francesca Melandri’s Sangue Giusto (2017) and the Uncovered Memory of Italian East Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-65
Author(s):  
Charles Burdett
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
The Social ◽  
Long Time

Abstract It is true that expansionism under Fascism did not, for a long time, receive the attention that it deserved. This period of historiographic and literary amnesia has now, however, come to a close. As regards literary production, recent years have seen the publication of a number of highly regarded works – by such well-known writers as Gabriella Ghermandi or Igiaba Scego – that have used the novel as a means of exploring the legacies of empire. The article explores one of the most recent additions to this body of work, Francesca Melandri’s Sangue giusto (2017). More specifically, it addresses the theme of secrets and their revelation that lies at the heart of the novel. It investigates the social and psychological ramifications of the discovery of the nature of imperial conquest under Fascism. It also explores how the novel interacts with the writing of those transnational African/Italian authors who have confronted the legacy of Italy’s colonial past. The article considers the overall vision that Sangue giusto offers of Italy’s relationship with Ethiopia, of the conceptual universe of colonialism, and of the enduring topicality of the memory of Italy’s imperial past.

‘Beast of No Nation’: Bribery, Corruption and Late Colonial Administration in

2019 ◽  
pp. 85-106
Author(s):  
Katherine Isobel Baxter
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Colonial Administration ◽  
The Social ◽  
Competing Demands ◽  
Colonial Texts ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
Social Uses

Chapter Four explores the competing demands made upon young Nigerian civil servants in the colonial administration, through an examination of Chinua Achebe’s novel No Longer at Ease. The chapter contextualizes the social and sexual pressures under which the novel’s protagonist, Obi, buckles through discussion of contemporary popular culture and the experiences of real-life Nigerian colonial administrators. The novel is also discussed in relation to the British colonial texts to which it responds, notably Joyce Cary’s Mr Johnson and Graham Greene’s The Heart of the Matter. Achebe’s own reflections on the social uses of fiction are also considered. The chapter argues that as readers we are invited by Achebe into judgement of Obi, and in doing so we are brought into larger debates about the nation state and the law.

A ‘Minefield of Misreckonings’: Europe’s Constitutional Pluralism

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 119-144
Author(s):  
Emilios Christodoulidis
Keyword(s):  
Market Economy ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Social Market Economy ◽  
European Level ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Constituent Power ◽  
The Social ◽  
To Come ◽  
Social Market ◽  
Constitutional Pluralism

AbstractThe paper is a critique of ‘constitutional pluralism’, as increasingly called upon to compensate for the social and democratic deficits of the European project, and of ‘constitutionalisation’ as compensating for the absence of any semblance of ‘constituent power’ at the European level. The substitution has been largely successful in redefining the terms of the debate. My interest in this paper, more specifically, is with constitutionalisation as a process of ‘becoming-constitutional’, the conditions of that process, and the criteria of ascription of constitutionality. My argument is that it involves a constitutive coupling with constitutional pluralism, such that allows even the current crisis to be portrayed as an ‘opportunity’ for Europe’s alleged ‘social market economy for the 21st century’ to ‘come out stronger’, its progress at no point obstructed or derailed by the peoples’ of Europe resistance to it.

scholarly journals Monitoring and Epidemiological Trends of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Around The World

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
ARNAB SAHA ◽  
Komal Gupta ◽  
Manti Patil ◽  
Urvashi
Keyword(s):  
World Health ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Health Production ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Big Data Technologies ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Epidemiological Trends

COVID-19 has struck fear into populaces all through the world and shocked the worldwide restorative community, with the World Health Organization (WHO) pronouncing it a widespread as it were approximately three months after the flare-up of the infection. A new different virus (primarily called ‘Novel Coronavirus 2019-nCoV’) causing severe acute respiratory syndrome (coronavirus disease COVID-19) emerged in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China in December 2019 and rapidly spread to other parts of China and other countries around the world. The outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has caused more than 850,000 people infected and approx. 40000 of deaths in more than 190 countries up to March 2020, extremely affecting economic and social development. Presently, the number of infections and deaths is still increasing rapidly. COVID-19 seriously threatens human health, production, life, social functioning and international relations. In the fight against COVID-19, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and big data technologies have played an important role in many aspects. This paper describes the usage of practical GIS and mapping dashboards and applications for monitoring the coronavirus epidemic and related activities as they spread around the world. At the facts level, in the generation of massive data, information no longer come on the whole from the authorities but are gathered from greater diverse enterprises. As of now and for a long time in the future, the improvement of GIS should be fortified to create a data-driven framework for fast information securing, which implies that GIS ought to be utilized to fortify the social operation parameterization of models and methods, particularly when giving back for social administration.

scholarly journals Chopin, Polish national culture and the question of “racial Purity”: Zofia Lissa’s voice in the debate over racial issues in the 1930s

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrzej Tuchowski
Keyword(s):  
Racial Identity ◽  
Real Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
German Anthropology ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Physical Traits ◽  
Landed Gentry ◽  
The Many ◽  
Jewish Descent ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The question of racial “purity” or “identity” was part of the fashionable discussion on human races in the 1930s. In 1938 a debate over Chopin’s “racial identity” took place in the Warsaw press, triggered by the publication a book entitled Polacy-chrześcijanie pochodzenia żydowskiego (Poles — Christians of Jewish Origin) by Mateusz Mieses, an outstanding Judaist and representative of one of Poland’s Jewish communities. Mieses’ aim was to familiarise the Polish reader with the very little-known scale on which the ethnically Jewish element had penetrated over the many centuries into the families of the Polish landed gentry, intelligentsia and even aristocracy. As a result, Mieses claimed, many eminent Poles known in Polish history had some Jewish blood in their veins. In addition to the more or less convincing examples of such assimilation, Mieses also quotes some rather dubious ones, including the genealogy of Chopin. On the basis of unconfirmed rumours and the composer’s facial features in some unidentified portrait he claims that Chopin was half Jewish through his mother Justyna Krzyżanowska. Mieses’ conclusions — as well as his entire methodology — were sharply criticised by the reviewer of Wiadomości Literackie as well as by Zofia Lissa, at that time a young scholar at the threshold of a brilliant musicological career. Lissa pointed out that establishing Chopin’s “racial affiliation” is difficult for a lack of reliable and objective sources. For a long time all images of Chopin available to researchers had been either portraits or sculptures, which — as artistic creations — used to deform his face. However, Lissa argued that most of his portraits point to his Dinaric characteristics, which were also confirmed by the two surviving real-life likenesses of the composer (referred to by the author as “racially unprejudiced” sources) — namely, his death mask and the only surviving daguerreotype. Taking into account the findings of contemporary (mainly German) anthropology, Lissa concluded that Chopin was a typical Dinaric with some Nordic features, and it was from his mother that Fryderyk inherited his few physical traits characteristic of that type. On the other hand, Lissa denied that there was any connection between Chopin’s music and his “racial identity”. It seems a paradoxical that Lissa — a scholar of Jewish descent — drew on Nazi theories formulated by German anthropologists to show that Chopin had no demonstrable Jewish ancestors. But if we place this debate in the context of its time, and of one specific period in the ideological and scholarly evolution of Zofia Lissa herself — things do not look so simple any more. Her emphasis on the role of the social environment and her rejection of Einchenauer’s theses concerning the impact of “race” on the character of music testify to Lissa’s intensifying links to the Marxist-Leninist ideology, which she most likely began to absorb in that very period.

scholarly journals Social issue in Tunisian cinema: A study in dimensions and significances: الموضوع الاجتماعيّ في السّينما التّونسيّة: قراءة في الأبعاد والدّلالات

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (12) ◽  
pp. 84-72
Author(s):  
Tarek Ben Mohamed Elmahmoudi Tarek Ben Mohamed Elmahmoudi
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
National Cinema ◽  
Political Transformations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Life Issues ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Dialectical Relationship ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Relationship Of

The correlation of cinema with reality stood for the crucial rule in launching this type of arts. The economic and political transformations that the world has gone through and which emitted the social reality of mankind have reinforced the relationship of cinema with reality in terms of maturity meaningfulness and worth. The social displays that arose from this reality were presented within film subjects grounded on artistic managements with intellectual and aesthetic dimensions, and according to creative visions that seek to raise the viewer's taste and awareness, thus enhancing their role in the production of knowledge and therefore, the cultural scene is endowed and developed. Tunisian cinema has not moved away from this lane, as all the social themes lead the tendencies of this cinema. Sometimes the cinematic approach gets deeper and hence forms a kind of creative anomaly, which would falsify the conceptions on which the term local cinema is built. Tunisian social cinema has drawn for itself a sequence that will allow it to be comprehensive in its cinematic presentation and boost the artistic approaches that ventured on establishing a national cinema with global echo: a cinema whose schemes are stimulated by the apprehensions of its citizens and their real life issues. Film; themes in Tunisian cinema was directed towards embracing the problems of the local street. The fluctuations that the country has perceived during its contemporary history have been the emphasis of the Tunisian filmmakers. Each platform of this history has accumulated jargon that is prerequisite to maintain the procedure of this artistic expression, and to ensure its being within the Tunisian cultural scene. Despite some shortcomings and deficiencies in the cinematic approach, the employment of the dialectical relationship between the individual and society within the works of Tunisian cinema was demonstrated in its preeminent forms. Consequently, the artistic depth which was for a long time sought is now achieved.

scholarly journals EUROPEAN LABOUR MARKET IN PANDEMIC REALITY

2020 ◽  
pp. 128-139
Author(s):  
Natalia Govorova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Social ◽  
Long Time ◽  
To Come ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Restrictive Measures ◽  
Domestic Economies ◽  
The Eu

The beginning of 2020 was marked by an outbreak of the global pandemic COVID-19, which forced almost all governments to adopt restrictive measures in which social distance played a key role. In order to stop the spread of the virus and ensure the safety of people, many businesses were temporarily shut down and millions of workers were absent from their workplaces for long periods. So far, it is difficult to predict how much time, financial resources and effort it will take various actors to recover the world, European and domestic economies. Individual sectors and enterprises will continue to be adversely affected by the effects of the pandemic for a long time to come and will have to increase costs to ensure safety for operational process and labour force. The global impact of the coronavirus pandemic in social, economic, demographic, financial, political and other areas has yet to be comprehensively assessed and analyzed by experts. The article provides insight into analysis of the European labour market and measures adopted by the EU on smoothing the consequences of the coronavirus crisis in the social and labour spheres.

Postcolonial Trauma in the 21st-Century English Female Fiction

2021 ◽  
pp. 89-104
Author(s):  
Lilia F. Khabibullina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Historical Trauma ◽  
Psychological Problem ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Past ◽  
Family Chronicle ◽  
White Teeth

The postcolonial fiction of the 21st century has developed a new version of family chronicle depicting the life of several generations of migrants to demonstrate the complexity of their experience, different for each generation. This article aims at investigating this tradition from the perspective of three urgent problems: trauma, postcolonial experience, and the “female” theme. The author uses the most illustrative modern women’s postcolonial writings (Z. Smith, Ju. Chang) to show the types of trauma featured in postcolonial literature as well as the change in the character of traumatic experience, including the migrant’s automythologization from generation to generation. There are several types of trauma, or stages experienced by migrants: historical, migration and selfidentification, more or less correlated with three generations of migrants. Historical trauma is the most severe and most often insurmountable for the first generation. It generates a myth about the past, terrible or beautiful, depending on the writer’s intention realized at the level of the writer or the characters. A most expanded form of this trauma can be found in the novel Wild Swans by Jung Chang, where the “female” experience underlines the severity of the historical situation in the homeland of migrants. The trauma of migration manifests itself as a situation of deterritorialization, lack of place, when the experience of the past dominates and prevents the migrants from adapting to a new life. This situation is clearly illustrated in the novel White Teeth by Z. Smith, where the first generation of migrants cannot cope with the effects of trauma. The trauma of selfidentification promotes a fictitious identity in the younger generation of migrants. Unable to join real life communities, they create automyths, joining fictional communities based on cultural myths (Muslim organizations, rap culture, environmental organizations). Such examples can be found in Z. Smith’s White Teeth and On Beauty. Thus, the problem of trauma undergoes erosion, because, strictly speaking, with each new generation, the event experienced as traumatic is less worth designating as such. Compared to historical trauma or the trauma of migration, trauma of self-identification is rather a psychological problem that affects the emotional sphere and is quite survivable for most of the characters.

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