scholarly journals Performative Retrieving of Tradition for Socio-Political Intervention: A Study of the Protest Theatre of Dario Fo

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sohaib Alam ◽  
◽  
Farhan Ahmad ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Vantage Point ◽  
Dario Fo ◽  
Political Intervention ◽  
Unique Vantage

Theatre provides Dario Fo with a unique vantage point through which he vents out his thoughts on issues of class, justice, equality and lays bare in his performances that are comic, derisive, and outspoken people’s discomfort with the prevailing order. They are an indictment of the establishment’s perceived apathy and neglect of the oppressed groups. He does not let the zany spirit of his performances to overshadow his art but redirects it in a constructive and meaningful way.

The History Boys: Critical reflections on our contributions to Management Learning and their ongoing implications

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-142
Author(s):  
Michael Reynolds ◽  
Russ Vince
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Management Education ◽  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Management Learning ◽  
Social Events ◽  
History Of ◽  
Reflective Essay ◽  
Unique Vantage

In this reflective essay, written for the 50th anniversary of Management Learning, we look at the history of the journal from a unique vantage point, our interconnected, academic lived experience of publishing in the journal. Our aim is to undertake an historical review of our publications in Management Learning in order to identify the key themes of our work, to make connections with broader academic and social events of the time and to assert the continuing relevance of these themes for future scholarship. We review 27 papers that we have published in Management Learning since Volume 1 (1971) and identify four main themes from our papers. These are set in the context of the development of critical management education. We highlight the broader dimensions to our themes and suggest two areas with implications for future scholarship in Management Learning. In our conclusion, we use our findings and reflections to identify what we have learned about management learning, as well as making a call for action in relation to what we are labelling historical reflexivity.

The effect of the Internet on civic engagement under authoritarianism: The case of Azerbaijan

First Monday ◽  
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katy E. Pearce ◽  
Deen Freelon ◽  
Sarah Kendzior
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Civic Life ◽  
Authoritarian State ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
The Government ◽  
Unique Vantage

This study examines civic activities under an authoritarian state — Azerbaijan — focusing on how the Internet may influence them. The role of the Internet in political and civic engagement is a subject of debate in any society. But Azerbaijan offers a unique vantage point to study the Internet’s effect on engagement because it views the Internet as an extension of sovereign dominion and controls online discussions. The government maintains the same view of the Internet as it does towards non–governmental engagement: it is unacceptable because it occurs outside state parameters. Using two nationally representative datasets from 2011, logistic regression analysis found that the Internet is associated with public civic engagement (and some forms of private civic engagement) but not with political government engagement. All results were robust to demographic controls, strengthening confidence that the Internet was at least indicative of, if not contributory to, civic life in Azerbaijan outside of the government.

Camming

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Jones
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Sex Industry ◽  
Neoliberal Capitalism ◽  
The World ◽  
Unique Vantage

Camming is based on a five-year mixed-methods study of the erotic webcam industry, and tells a pornographic story about the multibillion-dollar online sex industry colloquially called “camming.” Through camming, millions of people from all over the globe have found decent wages, friendship, intimacy, community, empowerment, and pleasure. This deeply rich book is filled with the stories of a diverse sample of cam models from around the world. This book is not a utopian tale. Cam models, like all sex workers, must grapple with exploitation, discrimination, harassment, and stigmatization. Using an intersectional lens, Jones is attentive to how the overlapping systems of neoliberal capitalism, White supremacy, patriarchy, cissexism, heterosexism, and ableism shape all cam models’ experiences in this new global sex industry. This thorough examination of the camming industry provides a unique vantage point from which to understand and theorize around gender, sexuality, race, and labor in a time when workers globally face increasing economic precariousness and worsened forms of alienation, and desperately desire to recapture pleasure in work. Despite the serious issues cam models face, Jones’s focus on pleasure will help people better understand the motivations for engaging in online sex work, as well as the complex social interactions between cam models and customers. In Camming, Jones pioneers an entirely new subfield in sociology—the sociology of pleasure. The sociology of pleasure can provide new insights into the motivation for social behavior and assist sociologists in analyzing social interactions in everyday life.

Joshua Marshman and the Study of Spoken Chinese

T oung Pao ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 106 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 401-457
Author(s):  
Mårten Söderblom Saarela
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Language ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Indian Languages ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
Dead End ◽  
Chinese Learning ◽  
Local Traditions ◽  
English Baptist ◽  
Unique Vantage ◽  
Native Informant

Abstract Joshua Marshman, English Baptist missionary in India, spent the decade between 1805 and 1814 studying the Chinese language. Marshman’s unique vantage point in India makes him stand out among European Sinologists of his time. Marshman’s familiarity with Indian languages and the local traditions of studying them informed his speculative publications on Chinese. Learning Chinese from a native informant was not enough for him. He thought that only through a mastery of both Sanskrit and Mandarin could the Chinese language be really comprehended and put to use by foreign missionaries and scholars alike. This article examines Marsh­man’s course of study and his publications on the Chinese language. It argues that although Marshman’s hope to forge a hybrid, Sanskrit-infused Sinology appeared as a dead end in his time, he was right to focus on the importance of foreign contacts in the formation of the modern Chinese language.

Wander, Watch, Repeat: Jean Rhys and Cinema

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Stead
Keyword(s):  
Jean Rhys ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Modernist Literature ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Serial Films ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Literary Techniques ◽  
Unique Vantage

This explores how modernist literature in the late 1920s and in the 1930s engaged with and conceptualised cinema culture, focusing on Jean Rhys’s early novels as a case study. It first examines her attention to urban geography and female movement, considering how she mapped city spaces through cinema visits. Rhys’s novels use cinema sites to construct a layered geography of memory and present experience for her female characters, mediated through locally specific choices in cinema venues. Second, it considers the relationship between Rhys’s literary style and cinema, considering how her early fiction forged intermedial connections between cinematic and literary techniques to describe these cinematic encounters and interconnect them with wider concerns in her fictions about the performative nature of women’s public bodily presence within the urban environment. Third, it considers Rhys’s use of certain types of cinematic texts and genres as a way of reflecting back on these issues, considering the relationship between genre structures and their modes of cinematic exhibition, and Rhys’s careful structuring of the everyday experiences of her heroines. Here, the chapter explores how Rhys’s references to comedy and serial films especially opened up a unique vantage point on women, visibility and value.

Memories of Martyrs

Women Rising ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 233-244
Author(s):  
Amina Zarrugh
Keyword(s):  
Vantage Point ◽  
The State ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Based ◽  
Unique Vantage

In this chapter, Amina Zarrugh investigates the legacy of family-based mobilizations on behalf of forcibly disappeared relatives from the unique vantage point of several interviews with Meryam Shkiwa, the sister to one of the prison killing’s victims, Rafiq Shkiwa. Meryam’s narrative traces her family’s early engagement with security forces following her brother’s disappearance to her own involvement in the family association in the Tripoli branch. Her story reveals the significant impact the loss of Rafiq had on the family and how the Shkiwa family’s persistent efforts to learn about his whereabouts constituted a significant form of resistance to the state. This essay connects the persistence of families in remembering and commemorating the loss of loved ones in the Abu Salim Prison killing to the emerging resistance to the Gaddafi regime in the years before its fall in 2011.

Jupiter As Seen By The Juno Microwave Radiometer: A Progress Report

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Levin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Microwave Radiometer ◽  
Progress Report ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Atmospheric Dynamics ◽  
Polar Orbit ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Solar Powered ◽  
Cloud Tops ◽  
Unique Vantage

<p>Juno is a spin-stabilized, solar-powered spacecraft in a highly eccentric 53.5-day polar orbit about Jupiter, with perijoves at about 5000 km above the cloud tops. From this unique vantage point, the Juno Microwave Radiometer (MWR) measures the radio emission in 6 channels, at wavelengths ranging from 1.4 to 50 cm, with 100 mS sampling throughout each spin of the spacecraft.  This data set covers the Jovian atmosphere over a wide range of latitudes, longitudes and emission angles, resulting in discoveries, puzzles, and fresh insights related to the distribution and concentration of ammonia and water, atmospheric dynamics, lightning, and other aspects of the atmosphere at depths as deep as 100 bars or more. We will present an overview of MWR results to date, incorporating data from 22 perijove passes.</p>

The Relevance Question Revisited: A Mid-Careerist Perspective on Public Service Education

1986 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert F. Durant ◽  
William A. Taggart ◽  
Amy Horne
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Teaching Styles ◽  
Substantial Effect ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
The Public ◽  
Work Habits ◽  
Unique Vantage

Although nearly two decades have passed since the Honey Report was issued, MPA education is still wrestling with the “relevance question.” This exploratory study seeks to assess the relevance issue from the unique vantage point of 183 mid-career MPA students at sixteen universities across the country. Queried are mid-careerist perceptions of the content, effect, and curriculum development needs of their MPA educational experience. The findings indicate: (1) a concern about the theoretical versus practical application focus of the mid-careerist experience; (2) a perception by these students that MPA education was having a substantial effect on their work habits, attitudes, and values; (3) a feeling that the balance afforded to ethics, politics, and skill development should probably differ among the subdisciplines; (4) a convergence of opinion with pre-service students on the most appropriate teaching styles for PA classrooms; (5) the perception that distinct differences existed in pre-service/mid-careerists to help academics provide a more applied view of the public service to pre-service students. The study concludes by arguing for the adoption of a service delivery ethic stressing knowledge co—production in the MPA educational process.

scholarly journals WHERE HAVE ALL THE REVOLUTIONARIES GONE? HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE REINVENTION OF REVOLUTION IN REBIYA KADEER’S DRAGON FIGHTER

eTopia ◽  
2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharine Lu
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Prisoner ◽  
Departure Point ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Human Rights Discourse ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Unique Vantage

For five and half years, Rebiya Kadeer was imprisoned as a political prisoner in China and was finally released in 2005 after Amnesty International campaigned for her release. Today, she now campaigns as a human rights activist against what many Uyghurs consider Chinese occupation of their homeland, Xinjiang. Although many organizationswork on human rights violations against the Uyghurs, Rebiya Kadeer has emerged as the primary symbol of Uyghur resistance in China, much like the Dalai Lama for Tibet.Her simultaneous position as both a human rights activist and resistance symbol offers a unique vantage point in exploring the relationship between memory, women, and nationalism. In sketching out these connections, this paper will analyze the agency and representation in the process of memory making and the gendering of resistance in relation to the life and memoir of Rebiya Kadeer. The political project of witnessing through representation offers a practical departure point for better understanding the formation of a feminine revolutionary subjectivity in contrast to the romanticized icon of the masculine, revolutionary hero. In proposing the relationship between memory, women and nationalism, this paper aims to ultimately understand whether the revolutionary subject has in effect become the human rights activist. And if this is the case, what then are the conditions for revolution, and is revolution possible within the logic of human rights discourse?

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