‘The Lingua Franca of the Bangle'

2021 ◽  
pp. 115-132
Author(s):  
Matt Perry
Keyword(s):  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Causal Link ◽  
Nationalist Movement ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
British Labour ◽  
Social Mobilisation ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
Insight Into

Wilkinson’s approach to imperialism provides significant insight into her political ideas. For much of the interwar period, she perceived a causal link between imperialism—which she understood as a product of late capitalism—and war. This chapter focuses upon her visit to India in autumn 1932 on behalf of the India League. Using the British and Indian press as well as India Office sources, it examines the complex relationships involved in this visit between the delegation, the Indian nationalist movement, the British and Indian state as well as the British Labour movement and the reception of Indian affairs in Britain. In this case, culturalist approaches, stressing the mutual comprehensibility, the prejudices and assumption of superiority underplay the micro-level complexity of transnational contentious politics. Wilkinson used several techniques to overcome the distance between Indian and British workers in her journalism and campaigning for Indian independence regarding the trip. The trip had a lasting significance for her attitude to the possibilities of revolution as well as the misplaced complacency about British immunity to fascism. Indeed, she incorporated her Indian experiences into her campaigning frames for social mobilisation related to women, Jarrow and anti-fascism.

scholarly journals Surrogate minimal depth as an importance measure for variables in random forests

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (19) ◽  
pp. 3663-3671 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Seifert ◽  
Sven Gundlach ◽  
Silke Szymczak
Keyword(s):  
Variable Selection ◽  
Supplementary Information ◽  
Predictor Variables ◽  
Importance Measure ◽  
Surrogate Variables ◽  
Machine Learning Approach ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
Minimal Depth ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Causal Variables

Abstract Motivation It has been shown that the machine learning approach random forest can be successfully applied to omics data, such as gene expression data, for classification or regression and to select variables that are important for prediction. However, the complex relationships between predictor variables, in particular between causal predictor variables, make the interpretation of currently applied variable selection techniques difficult. Results Here we propose a new variable selection approach called surrogate minimal depth (SMD) that incorporates surrogate variables into the concept of minimal depth (MD) variable importance. Applying SMD, we show that simulated correlation patterns can be reconstructed and that the increased consideration of variable relationships improves variable selection. When compared with existing state-of-the-art methods and MD, SMD has higher empirical power to identify causal variables while the resulting variable lists are equally stable. In conclusion, SMD is a promising approach to get more insight into the complex interplay of predictor variables and outcome in a high-dimensional data setting. Availability and implementation https://github.com/StephanSeifert/SurrogateMinimalDepth. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

Market Influence Analytics in a Digital Ecosystem

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 42-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vandana Ahuja
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Product Positioning ◽  
Careful Evaluation ◽  
Digital Ecosystem ◽  
New Business ◽  
Marketing Intelligence ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Viral Proliferation ◽  
Insight Into

The internet provides opportunities for marketing which extend from the micro level of electronic contacts to the macro level of new business opportunities. As the democratisation of consumer expression leads to a viral proliferation of information online, the new age communication ecosystem has prompted the need for a careful evaluation of the potential of what is being called Consumer Generated internet content, creating new challenges for Marketing Intelligence. These offerings of the Information age have garnered adequate potential to engineer business transformations. Consumer Generated Media (CGM) comprises the content generated by consumers within online venues such as Internet forums, Blogs, Wikis, discussion lists, etc. Leveraging CGM and channelizing it appropriately has become critical for organisations for understanding and managing market performance, product positioning, and driving brand reputations. The biggest challenge in front of organizations now is to harvest CGM to help marketers gain insight into the online market conversations taking place. Efforts are on by marketing in organizations to track the volume, origin, flow, and trajectory of the conversations in real time as they evolve, study the domain of Individual Internet Worth and map the scope, reach and influence of the same on topics that might have a positive or negative impact on a company’s products, promotions, and reputation.

Zakir Naik and His Audiences: A Case Study of Srinagar, Kashmir

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-222
Author(s):  
Raoof Mir
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Jammu And Kashmir ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Fresh Insight ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Religious Worldviews

Most literature on Mumbai-based Muslim tele-Islamicist Zakir Naik offers an organizational, biographical and ideological profile. This approach has concealed the symbolic significance attached to Naik by his audiences. This paper attempts to explore not only who and what Naik is, but how and where he is located. By incorporating ethnographic and cultural studies approaches, this paper offers fresh insight into Naik and his methods of communicating religion. Taking Srinagar, a city in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, as an ethnographic site, this paper explores how Muslim individuals or groups interpret Naik in relation to their religious worldviews. The articulation of Islam by Zakir Naik through media platforms such as television and social media has contributed to a religious trend in Kashmir, in which people have discovered new ways to think about themselves and to participate in discourses about religion that would have been unthinkable a few decades ago.

scholarly journals Situační analýza a role diskurzů v sociálněvědním výzkumu

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-52
Author(s):  
Markéta Košatková
Keyword(s):  
Social Reality ◽  
Situational Analysis ◽  
Situation Analysis ◽  
Meso Level ◽  
Social Organizations ◽  
Collective Actors ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Insight Into

The article introduces situation analysis (cf. Clarke 2005) as an epistemologicalontological basis for science freed of the positivistic paradigm. Situation analysis in a broader perspective dives into present discourses as well as discourses that have been concealed. At the meso-level, the analysis offers insight into social and discursive arenas formed by collective actors, key material elements, social organizations and institutions. At the micro-level it is aimed at the position of individual actors in a situation. Situational analysis provides multidimensional research resonating marginalized discourses and supports the everydayness of knowledge in a socially engaged, emic research of social reality. The focus on language constructions in the humanities allows for the re-definition of one’s own entities, formulas, and rules. Their (im)possible transgression is a necessary response to the accelerated and diverse shape of the recent globalized and particularized society.

‘Smugglers of Truth’: The Indian diaspora, Hindu nationalism, and the Emergency (1975–77)

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (5) ◽  
pp. 1729-1773 ◽  
Author(s):  
EDWARD ANDERSON ◽  
PATRICK CLIBBENS
Keyword(s):  
Critical Event ◽  
Indian Diaspora ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Global Networks ◽  
Nationalist Movement ◽  
Indian Politics ◽  
Term Change ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Transnational Citizenship ◽  
The Media

AbstractDuring the Indian Emergency (1975–77) a range of opposition groups and the Indian state competed to mobilize the Indian diaspora. The Emergency therefore needs to be understood as a global event. Opposition activists travelled overseas and developed transnational networks to protest against the Emergency, by holding demonstrations in their countries of residence and smuggling pamphlets into India. They tried to influence the media and politicians outside India in an effort to pressurize Indira Gandhi into ending the Emergency. An important strand of ‘long-distance’ anti-Emergency activism involved individuals from the Hindu nationalist movement overseas, whose Indian counterparts were proscribed and imprisoned during the period. Several key Hindutva politicians in recent decades were also involved in transnational anti-Emergency activism, including Subramanian Swamy and Narendra Modi. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's role in opposing the Emergency—particularly the way in which it enabled overseas Indians to act as ‘smugglers of truth’—remains an important legitimizing narrative for Hindu nationalists. Indira Gandhi's Congress government mounted its own pro-Emergency campaigns overseas: it attacked diasporic opposition activists and closely monitored their activities through diplomatic missions. The state's recognition of the diaspora's potential influence on Indian politics, and its attempts to counter this activism, catalysed a long-term change in its attitude towards Indians overseas. It aimed to imitate more ‘successful’ diasporas and began to regard overseas Indians as a vital political and geopolitical resource. The Emergency must be reassessed as a critical event in the creation of new forms of transnational citizenship, global networks, and long-distance nationalism.

scholarly journals Institutions, Ideologies, and Comparative Political Theory

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 423-438
Author(s):  
Joshua Simon
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Comparative Political Theory ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
Methodological Reflection ◽  
Insight Into

The growing prominence of comparative political theory has inspired extensive and fruitful methodological reflection, raising important questions about the procedures that political theorists should apply when they select texts for study, interpret their passages, and assess their arguments. But, notably, comparative political theorists have mainly rejected the comparative methods used in the subfield of comparative politics, because they argue that applying the comparative method would compromise both the interpretive and the critical projects that comparative political theory should pursue. In this article, I describe a comparative approach for the study of political ideas that offers unique insight into how the intellectual and institutional contexts that political thinkers occupy influence their ideas. By systematically describing how political thinking varies across time and over space in relation to the contexts within which political thinkers live and work, the comparative method can serve as the foundation for both deconstructive critiques, which reveal the partial interests that political ideas presented as universally advantageous actually serve, and reconstructive critiques, which identify particular thinkers or traditions of political thought that, because of the contexts in which they developed, offer compelling critical perspectives on existing political institutions.

‘LIKE A LILY AMONGST THE THORNS’: PATTERNS OF NOBLE POWER AND VIOLENCE BETWEEN FARNESE AND ORSINI, 1378–1447

2019 ◽  
Vol 87 ◽  
pp. 245-265
Author(s):  
Loek Luiten
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
European Politics ◽  
Peace Agreement ◽  
Medieval Italy ◽  
Italian Peninsula ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Insight Into

Violence and peace-making in medieval Italy have often been analysed in urban environments. But what happened if two powerful baronial families clashed in the countryside? This paper, by looking at the feud between the Farnese and Orsini di Pitigliano during the Western Schism, illuminates various patterns of conflict and conciliation. Such conflicts witnessed the participation of relatives, allies, and subjects who shared in the sense of community and honour of their lords. The various motivations for actors to become involved on behalf of or in opposition to barons are analysed here in detail. The events of the Farnese–Orsini feud on the micro-level are linked to wider developments on the Italian peninsula and European politics. In the second part of this paper the successful conclusion of the feud is analysed in light of the return of the papacy to Rome. The meticulous detail in which the peace agreement was hammered out then provides further insight into the strategies employed by baronial families to maintain the peace. In all, this paper therefore contributes to the study of violence and peace-making as well as of the Italian nobility during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

The Enemy Next Door: Italian Collaboration in Deporting Jews during the German Occupation of Rome

Modern Italy ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frauke Wildvang
Keyword(s):  
German Occupation ◽  
Comprehensive Picture ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Insight Into

About 2,000 Jews were deported from Rome during the nine months of German occupation, half of them after the infamous German razzia of 16 October 1943. Who took part in their identification and arrest? Italian historiography has most commonly focused on a few ardent Fascist collaborators, while the majority of Italians were proclaimed to be engaged in rescue operations for persecuted Jews. Due to the long-standing hegemony of the notion of ‘italiani brava gente’ and the taboo against discussing Italian collaboration, almost no studies of the Jewish persecution during the German occupation in Italy have been undertaken. The analysis of over 50 trials against Fascist collaborators offers insight into the caccia all'ebreo on the micro-level of occupied Rome. Elaborating on different forms of denunciations characterizing the persecution as well as the diverse motives of the Italian perpetrators, this article presents a comprehensive picture of the collaboration between German occupation forces and the population of Rome.

scholarly journals An Insight into the Role of Postmortem Immunohistochemistry in the Comprehension of the Inflammatory Pathophysiology of COVID-19 Disease and Vaccine-Related Thrombotic Adverse Events: A Narrative Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (21) ◽  
pp. 12024
Author(s):  
Chiara Stassi ◽  
Cristina Mondello ◽  
Gennaro Baldino ◽  
Luigi Cardia ◽  
Alessio Asmundo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Events ◽  
Diffuse Alveolar Damage ◽  
Multiorgan Failure ◽  
Causal Link ◽  
World Health ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Vaccination Campaigns ◽  
Insight Into

On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic due to the spread of COVID-19 from Wuhan, China, causing high mortality rates all over the world. The related disease, which mainly affects the lungs, is responsible for the onset of Diffuse Alveolar Damage (DAD) and a hypercoagulability state, frequently leading to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and multiorgan failure, particularly in old and severe-critically ill patients. In order to find effective therapeutic strategies, many efforts have been made aiming to shed light on the pathophysiology of COVID-19 disease. Moreover, following the late advent of vaccination campaigns, the need for the comprehension of the pathophysiology of the fatal, although rare, thrombotic adverse events has become mandatory as well. The achievement of such purposes needs a multidisciplinary approach, depending on a correct interpretation of clinical, biochemical, biomolecular, and forensic findings. In this scenario, autopsies have helped in defining, on both gross and histologic examinations, the main changes to which the affected organs undergo and the role in assessing whether a patient is dead “from” or “with” COVID-19, not to mention whether the existence of a causal link exists between vaccination and thrombotic adverse events. In the present work, we explored the role of postmortem immunohistochemistry, and the increasingly used ancillary technique, in helping to understand the mechanism underlying the pathophysiology of both COVID-19 disease and COVID-19 vaccine-related adverse and rare effects.

scholarly journals How relationships between views, understandings, and implementations of inquiry-based teaching in biology contribute to science teacher identity

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Pellikka ◽  
Sonja Lutovac ◽  
Raimo Kaasila
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Science Teacher ◽  
Teacher Identity ◽  
Biology Education ◽  
Primary Teachers ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
Research Period ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Science Teacher Identity

This study examines the relationships between preservice primary teachers’ (PSTs) views, understandings, and implementations of inquiry-based teaching (IBT) in primary biology education. In earlier studies, these relationships have been researched separately. Exploring them simultaneously allows a greater insight into the process of teacher change and science teacher identity development. Drawing on the narrative method, data included learning diaries, lesson plans, and interviews during a two year research period. Our findings reveal the complex relationships between three aspects of IBT. For example, embracing views of IBT were sometimes accompanied by a significant understanding of IBT and other times by a weak understanding. Whereas, hesitant views of IBT also went together with significant understanding. We discuss these relationships in the light of their impact on science teacher identity and provide suggestions for teacher education.

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