Conducting Textual Analysis: The Role of Ethics, Spirituality, and Positionality in Understanding Social Change and Transformations Through Interpretive Research Projects

The whole world, the Muslim in particular has witnessed conflicts in different areas, which have hindered the developmental efforts of the nations concerned. It should be learned that most victims of these conflicts are women and children. This article attempts to elaborate the role of Muslims Women as a crucial segment in civil society in initiating peace building through nurturing process. It maintains that the adoption of the principles and values derived from the Qur’ān and Sunnah of the Prophet is necessary as a process of lifelong learning. Those identified values constituted the framework of this article and it adopts the textual analysis method. This article concludes that through the implementation of those values and frameworks for peace building, women as one of the important segments of civil society are able to play significant role towards initiating peace building and promoting peaceful co-existence in pluralistic society. Abstrak: Dunia Islam khususnya telah menyaksikan konflik di pelbagai daerah yang berbeza. Konflik ini telah menghalang usaha kearah pembangunan Kawasan yang berkenaan. Kebanyakan mangsa konflik ini adalah wanita dan kanak-kanak. Artikel ini cuba untuk menghuraikan peranan wanita Islam sebagai segmen penting dalam masyarakat madani dalam membangun proses kedamaian dengan mendidik dan memupuk prinsip dan nilai murni janaan al-Qur’an. Penggunaan prinsip dan nilai yang dikutip dari ayat-ayat Qur'an dan hadis Rasulullah adalah keperluan yang mendesak sebagai wadah bagi proses pembelajaran sepanjang hayat. Nilai-nilai yang dikenal pasti merupakan rangka kerja artikel ini, dan metod yang dirujuk adalah analisis teks. Artikel ini menyimpulkan bahawa melalui pelaksanaan nilai-nilai dan kerangka kerja Islam bagi proses kedamaian, wanita Islam dalam masyarakat madani mampu memainkan peranan penting dalam memulakan pembinaan keamanan dan menggalakkan kehidupan yang harmonis, sejahtera dan saling bantu membantu dalam masyarakat majmuk.

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The History of ‘the Reading Public’

10.1093/oso/9780198800170.003.0006 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Stefan Collini

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Social Change ◽

Working Class ◽

Literary History ◽

Reading Public ◽

Reading Matter ◽

History Of ◽

Victorian Periodicals

This chapter argues that accounts of ‘the reading public’ are always fundamentally historical, usually involving stories of ‘growth’ or ‘decline’. It examines Q. D. Leavis’s Fiction and the Reading Public, which builds a relentlessly pessimistic critique of the debased standards of the present out of a highly selective account of literature and its publics since the Elizabethan period. It goes on to exhibit the complicated analysis of the role of previous publics in F. R. Leavis’s revisionist literary history, including his ambivalent admiration for the great Victorian periodicals. And it shows how Richard Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy carries an almost buried interpretation of social change from the nineteenth century onwards, constantly contrasting the vibrant and healthy forms of entertainment built up in old working-class communities with the slick, commercialized reading matter introduced by post-1945 prosperity.

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The Perils and Promises of Disability Biography

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190234959.013.2 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Kim E. Nielsen

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Historical Narratives ◽

Disabled People ◽

Cultural Discourses ◽

The Past ◽

Helen Keller ◽

Rigorous Study ◽

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Biographical scholarship provides a means by which to understand the past. Disability biography writes disabled people into historical narratives and cultural discourses, acknowledging power, action, and consequence. Disability biography also analyzes the role of ableism in shaping relationships, systems of power, and societal ideals. When written with skilled storytelling, rigorous study, nuance, and insight, disability biography enriches analyses of people living in the past. Disability biography makes clear the multiple ways by which individuals and communities labor, make kinship, persevere, and both resist and create social change. When using a disability analysis, biographies of disabled people (particularly people famous for their disability, such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Helen Keller) reveal the relationality and historically embedded nature of disability. In an ableist world, such acts can be revolutionary.

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A Large-Scale COVID-19 Twitter Chatter Dataset for Open Scientific Research—An International Collaboration

Epidemiologia ◽

10.3390/epidemiologia2030024 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. 315-324

Author(s):

Juan M. Banda ◽

Ramya Tekumalla ◽

Guanyu Wang ◽

Jingyuan Yu ◽

Tuo Liu ◽

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Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

Social Dynamics ◽

Additional Data ◽

Open Data ◽

Data Sources ◽

Research Projects ◽

Research Groups ◽

The World ◽

Data Source

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread worldwide, an unprecedented amount of open data is being generated for medical, genetics, and epidemiological research. The unparalleled rate at which many research groups around the world are releasing data and publications on the ongoing pandemic is allowing other scientists to learn from local experiences and data generated on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there is a need to integrate additional data sources that map and measure the role of social dynamics of such a unique worldwide event in biomedical, biological, and epidemiological analyses. For this purpose, we present a large-scale curated dataset of over 1.12 billion tweets, growing daily, related to COVID-19 chatter generated from 1 January 2020 to 27 June 2021 at the time of writing. This data source provides a freely available additional data source for researchers worldwide to conduct a wide and diverse number of research projects, such as epidemiological analyses, emotional and mental responses to social distancing measures, the identification of sources of misinformation, stratified measurement of sentiment towards the pandemic in near real time, among many others.

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The NGOization of Space: Dilemmas of Social Change, Planning Policy, and the Israeli Public Sphere

Environment and Planning D Society and Space ◽

10.1068/d459t ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 25 (4) ◽

pp. 745-758 ◽

Cited By ~ 27

Author(s):

Haim Yacobi

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Public Sphere ◽

Critical Analysis ◽

Critical Reading ◽

Production Of Space ◽

The Public ◽

Planning Policy ◽

Strategic Goals ◽

The Public Sphere

This paper offers a critical analysis of the role of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that deal with planning policy in general and in Israel in particular. The inherent dilemmas of the different NGOs' tactics and strategies in reshaping the public sphere are examined, based on a critical reading of Habermas's conceptualization of the public sphere. The main objective of this paper is to investigate to what extent, and under which conditions, the NGOization of space—that is, the growing number of nongovernmental actors that deal with the production of space both politically and tangibly—has been able to achieve strategic goals which may lead towards social change.

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Capital Switching and the Role of Ground Rent: 1 Theoretical Problems

Environment and Planning A Economy and Space ◽

10.1068/a210445 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 21 (4) ◽

pp. 445-462 ◽

Cited By ~ 33

Author(s):

R J King

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Housing Market ◽

Capital Accumulation ◽

The State ◽

Social Conditions ◽

Rent Extraction ◽

Economic Sectors ◽

Speculative Investment ◽

Capital Switching

The flow of both productive and speculative investment into housing relates to the state of capital accumulation in other economic sectors, as hypothesised in the ‘circuits of capital’ argument, but it also relates to the incentive to ‘switch’ investment into and out of housing, and therefore to expectations of ground rent and the (changing) social conditions that enable ground rent extraction. This is the first of three papers in which the relationships involved in these processes are explored. A series of theoretical problems arising from the argument are dealt with, principally relating to its seeming economic determinism and to an inappropriately narrow treatment of crisis and social change. In the subsequent papers, in this journal, these various ideas will be used to reflect on housing market and related social change in Melbourne from the 1930s to the 1980s.

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Role of Students and Supervisors’ Interaction in Research Projects: Expectations and Evaluations

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences ◽

10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.01.163 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 171 ◽

pp. 576-583 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Natalia Moskvicheva ◽

Nina Bordovskaia ◽

Larisa Darinskaya

Keyword(s):

Research Projects

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Logikôs Argumentation in Aristotle’s Natural Science

Apeiron ◽

10.1515/apeiron-2020-0018 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 0 (0) ◽

Author(s):

Adam Woodcox

Keyword(s):

Natural Science ◽

Textual Analysis ◽

Natural Philosophy ◽

Close Textual Analysis ◽

Standard Domain

AbstractThis paper offers a novel interpretation of the nature and role of logical (logikôs) argumentation in Aristotle’s natural philosophy. In contrast to the standard domain interpretation, which makes logikôs argumentation the contrary of phusikôs, relying on principles drawn from outside the domain of natural science, I propose that the essential or defining feature of logikôs argumentation is the use of principles that are general relative to the question under investigation. My interpretation is developed and illustrated with a close textual analysis of Aristotle’s explanation of mule sterility in Generation of Animals II 8.

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