scholarly journals Gaiman, Banks and Miéville – Hybrid Space and Genre

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-110
Author(s):  
Urša Vogrinc Javoršek

The analysis of three recent British novels: Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere (1996), Iain Banks’ Transition (2009) and China Miéville’s The City & the City (2009) strives to uncover structural parallelisms and the inherent evolution in their development, plot structuring and presentation. It is centred on the exhibited relation to the structure and general mechanics of space. The interpretations of space are based on Foucault’s heterotopias, the rhizome of Deleuze and Guattari, and Certeau’s absent space, which show how the active force of space and the complexity of the genre identity are interconnected, and how they interact with the social and political engagement of the works and their wider cultural and social context. These seminal works of the British Boom provide a rich source material for an outline of the process of interplay of genre identity and political engagement, and an overview of how this interplay affects their plot, style and the protagonists.

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Masnun Tahir

"No ... of a man and a woman except if their mahram, and no travellingfor a woman except with her mahram"This long sentence is now decoratingmany public space in Aceh, including on ther tree trunks in the city gardens where young unmarried couples might be interested in enjoying. This propaganda is based on the province Qanun (regulation) No 14/2003 about prohibition of kludwat (...). This paper will not deal with the Qanun per-se, rather with the underlying arguments used by the proponents of the articulation of the Qanun by local intellectuals. My discussion to the issue begins with the examination of the social context within which the hadits aboui mahram is conceptualized, then followed by a deep analysis on the formulation of Fiqh (Islamic law) as well as gender analysis on the impact of mahram concept to women's mobility. At the end present my recommendation in applying transformative understanding on the mahram concept.


2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (293) ◽  
pp. 78-102
Author(s):  
Sávio Carlos Desan Scopinho

Este artigo estuda a compreensão do Magistério Eclesiástico sobre o laicato na Quinta Conferência Episcopal Latino-americana, realizada na cidade de Aparecida – SP (Brasil), no ano de 2007. Nessa Conferência, os bispos retomaram a reflexão sobre o laicato apresentada nas Conferências de Medellín (1968), Puebla (1979) e Santo Domingo (1992), dentro de um novo contexto eclesial e social. A proposta é apresentar os vários momentos de realização da Conferência de Aparecida, focando o Documento Conclusivo no que diz respeito à temática do laicato. O ponto de partida da reflexão é que o laicato, na concepção do Magistério Eclesiástico latino-americano, teve uma evolução histórica e doutrinal, com desafios e limites e, ao mesmo tempo, com esperança e utopia. Essa interpretação sobre o leigo contribui para entender os impasses e anseios ainda presentes neste novo milênio, que expressa uma Igreja dinâmica e inserida na realidade social e eclesial do momento atual. O entendimento dos bispos latino-americanos sobre o laicato, expresso no Documento Conclusivo de Aparecida, reforça o reconhecimento da importância dos leigos como protagonistas na estrutura interna da Igreja e na relação com a sociedade.Abstract: This article studies the comprehension of the Ecclesiastical Magisterium about the laity in the Fifth Latin American Episcopal Conference held in the city of Aparecida, São Paulo, Brazil, in 2007. In this Conference the bishops resumed the reflexion about the laity presented in the Conferences in Medellín (1968), Puebla (1979) and Santo Domingo (1992), within a new ecclesial and social context. The proposal is to present various moments of the Conference in Aparecida, focusing on the Conclusive Document, with reference to the laity issue. The beginning of the reflexion concerns to the fact that the laity, in the conception of the latin american Ecclesiastical Magisterium, has had a historical and doctrinal development, with challenges and limits but with hope and utopia at the same time. This interpretation about the laity contributes to understand the impasses and expectations present in this new millenium, which expresses a dinamic Church embedded within the social and ecclesial reality of the current moment. The understanding of the latin american bishops about the laity, expressed in the Conclusive Document of Aparecida, reinforces the recognition of the laity importance as the protagonists in the internal structure of the Church and in the relashionship with the society.Keywords: Laity. Latin America. Ecclesiastical magisterium. V Conference. Aparecida.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-34
Author(s):  
Elisa Jhonson Saragih

This paper is motivated by anxiety about the challenges faced around the implementation of education in the city of Makassar. In that context Christian schools have major challenges in the social context of Makassar which is experiencing global developments. One of the challenges is how Christian schools are still able to dialogue about identity and purpose by utilizing cultural values ​​or local wisdom. The local wisdom in question is to raise the siri 'na pacce value. Siri 'na pacce is a virtue in the social community of Bugis-Makassar to maintain the integrity and purpose of their lives. The value of the siri’ na pacce is then dialogue with the value of integrity and purpose in biblical teaching that characterizes education in Christian schools. It was found that the value of the siri’ na pacce could be appointed as part of the establishment of the value of integrity to maintain the identity and purpose of education. With the implementation of the siri’ na pacce values, it is expected that Christian schools do not run away in their characteristics and objectives and are not trapped in exclusivity that results in alienation.


Al-Albab ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nasrullah Nasrullah ◽  
Desy Mardhiah

Eid al-Fitr is special compared to other holy days of Muslims. In addition to the celebration of victory for Muslims after a month-long fasting, there is a national phenomenon that occurs ahead of the Eid al-Fitr: the flow of urban people returning to their home towns and villlages. Millions of Muslims in Indonesia return home ahead of the holy day. Padang city or Ranah Minang as the capital of West Sumatra Province is one of the destinations for those homeward-bound travelers since the city and other areas in West Sumatra are the hometowns of the Minang people. Simultaneously, in every public space in the city, banners are installed by the head of the local government, political parties, or community leaders to deliver Eid greetings. This article examines the discourse of the message on the banners in the city of Padang in relation to the reality around the place where the banners were installed, the social context, as well as the relationship between the discourses on the banners. Keywords: Discourse, Eid Greetings


Author(s):  
Vibhu Dagar ◽  
Amber Verma ◽  
Govardhan K.

Sentiment analysis is contextual mining of text which identifies and extracts subjective information in source material and helps a business to understand the social sentiment of their brand, product, or service while monitoring online conversations. However, analysis of social media streams is usually restricted to just basic sentiment analysis and count-based metrics. This is akin to just scratching the surface and missing out on those high value insights that are waiting to be discovered. Twitter is an online person-to-person communication administration where overall clients distribute their suppositions on an assortment of themes, talk about current issues, grumble, and express positive or on the other hand negative notions for items they use in life. Hence, Twitter is a rich source of information for supposition mining and estimation investigation.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-29
Author(s):  
Jonathan Lucas Antonio ◽  
Heloisa do Nascimento Eustachio Bezerro ◽  
Edilene Mayumi Murashita Takenaka

Social entrepreneurship is the creation of a business aimed at solving social problems and making society more inclusive, without neglecting to seek the economic side. The process of segregation of recyclable material has a great potential of expansion in the city of Presidente Prudente, in the State of São Paulo. Thus, in this study, the proposal was to define social entrepreneurship and relate the formation and performance of a cooperative of workers in recyclable material, Cooperlix, located in the mentioned municipality. In order to do so, this study was constructed in the collection of data found in existing literature with the accomplishment of bibliographical research through books, magazines and academic research available in the collection of the Unoeste and FCT / Unesp library and in specific sites on the subject.It is concluded that social entrepreneurship and cooperativism are related due to their essences and similar effects, and both have as their starting point the social context and the formation of Cooperlix reiterates these facts.


1987 ◽  
Vol 32 (12) ◽  
pp. 1004-1007
Author(s):  
Gregory M. Herek
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