Justice for Janitors in Los Angeles and Beyond: A New Form of Unionism in the Twenty-first Century?

2016 ◽  
pp. 44-80
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
First Century ◽  
Justice For Janitors ◽  
New Form ◽  
Twenty First Century

scholarly journals New Chinglish and the Post-Multilingualism challenge: Translanguaging ELF in China

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Wei
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
First Century ◽  
Chinese Speakers ◽  
Chinese Characteristics ◽  
Language And Communication ◽  
New Form ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
New Generation

AbstractBuilding on the extensive ELF research that aims to reconceptualise English as a resource that can be appropriated and exploited without allegiance to its historically native speakers, this article explores the issue of English in China by examining New Chinglish that has been created and shared by a new generation of Chinese speakers of English in China and spread through the new media. This new form of English has distinctive Chinese characteristics and serves a variety of communicative, social and political purposes in response to the Post-Multilingualism challenges in China and beyond. I approach New Chinglish from a Translanguaging perspective, a theoretical perspective that is intended to raise fundamental questions about the validity of conventional views of language and communication and to contribute to the understanding of the Post-Multilingualism challenges that we face in the twenty-first century.

scholarly journals La ética y el desafío de vivir una ciudadanía democrática “La ética en la educación desde una perspectiva en común”

2016 ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Antonio Calderón
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
First Century ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
The World ◽  
Nuevas Tecnologías ◽  
New Form ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion

ResumenNuestro Siglo XXI vive cambios muy profundos, los cuales están basados en las nuevas tecnologías, nuevos medios de comunicación, nuevas formas de relaciones humanas y nueva forma de hacer cultura, es decir, es un modo nuevo de ver el mundo con otros ojos, pero, es en este ver y rever, donde se va descubriendo una trama de problemas con connotaciones muy profundas que afectan al ser humano y a toda la arquitectura de los entramados sociales vigentes, en estado de democracia. Ahora bien, estos nuevos comportamientos o hábitos, deben ser objetos de estudio. La Ética y la pedagogía deben ser las primeras interesadas en ella, pues es la segunda puerta por donde las nuevas generaciones deben construir sus hábitos para una vivencia y convivencia más humana y humanizada. Nuestra propuesta es una vivencia desde la ética pedagógica en un contexto marcado por la pluralidad.Palabras clave: Ética pedagógica - pluralidad - comunicación - diálogo - educación en valores - hábitos AbstractThis Twenty-First Century experiences very deep changes based on newtechnologies, new media, new forms of human relations and new form ofculture, that is, a new way of seeing the world with new eyes. And it is inthis viewing and reviewing where we discover a variety of problems withdeep connotations affecting humans and the entire architecture of theexisting social frameworks, in a state of democracy. These new behaviorsand/or habits must be subjected to study. Ethics and pedagogy shouldbe the first interested, because they represent the second opportunityfor the younger generations build their habits for living and sharing ina more humanized way. Our proposal is an experience from teachingethics in a context marked by plurality.Keywords: Pedagogical ethics, pluralism, communication, dialogue,education in values, habits ResumoO nosso século XXI, vive mudanças muito profundas, que são baseadasnas novas tecnologias, novos médios de comunicação, novas formas derelações humanas e nova forma de fazer cultura, ou seja, é uma novamaneira de ver o mundo com outros olhos, mas neste ver e rever, ondevai-se descobrindo uma trama de problemas com conotações profundasque afetam ao ser humano e toda a arquitetura das estruturas sociais existentes,em estado de democracia. Agora, esses novos comportamentos e /ou hábitos devem ser objetos de estudo. A ética e a pedagogia devem seras primeiras interessadas nela, pois é a segunda porta por onde as novasgerações devem construir seus hábitos para uma vivencia e convivênciamais humana e humanizada. Nossa proposta é uma vivencia desde a éticapedagógica num contexto marcado pela pluralidade.Palavras-chave: Ética pedagógica, pluralidade, comunicação, diálogo,educação em valores, hábitos.

Tahrir Memoirs: Radwa Ashour and Mona Prince

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tahia Abdel Nasser
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
University Campus ◽  
New Form ◽  
Tahrir Square ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The University

This chapter examines new Arab memoirs and the effects of the Arab revolutions in the twenty-first century on the genre. The genre of the Tahrir memoir, a form that focuses on subjectivity in the broader movement rather than solitude, reworks Arab memoirs in the twenty-first century. Radwa Ashour and Mona Prince wrote new memoirs that chronicle the writers’ involvement in Egypt’s 2011 revolution. The chapter focuses on Ashour’s Heavier than Radwa: Fragments of an Autobiography (2013) and the posthumously published The Scream (2014), including The Journey (1983) and Specters (1999), with Mona Prince’s Revolution Is My Name (2012). Both Ashour and Prince offer a new form in which writing, activism, the university campus, and Tahrir Square are deeply intertwined, with parts that focus on the writers’ medical or professional crises within Egypt’s revolution.

An Amalgamation of Power and Paint: Gajin Fujita, Los Angeles Street Art, and Images of Edo Japan

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-356
Author(s):  
Alison J. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Visual Language ◽  
First Century ◽  
Street Art ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Hip Hop Culture ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Japanese Painting

The paintings of Gajin Fujita (b. 1972) express the urban Asian diasporic experience in vivid images filled with historic and contemporary cultural references. Creating an amalgamation of contemporary sports figures, hip-hop culture, historic Japanese painting conventions, street art, and the visual language of Edo Japan (1600–1868), Fujita reflects his diverse experiences as a citizen of twenty-first century Los Angeles in his paintings. This article introduces the artist and provides a nuanced examination of his works vis-à-vis an understanding of the larger issues addressed in both Edo artistic practice and contemporary street art culture. By specifying the agents of power and performance in Fujita’s works, a greater understanding of the hybrid world of his colourful graphic paintings can be found.

Australian Masculinity on the Road

2000 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 227-236
Author(s):  
Philip Butterss
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
The Road ◽  
True Love ◽  
New Form ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Ways Of Being

In an Australia where the old images of masculinity are no longer serviceable, the road provides an ideal site for films wishing to explore ways of being a man at the dawn of the twenty-first century. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, True Love and Chaos, Doing Time for Patsy Cline and Kiss or Kill critique or destabilise traditional models of masculinity, and use the road as a space where masculinity is free to change. However, as Pamela Robertson (1997: 271) has pointed out, the road movie is ‘a genre obsessed with home’. The closure of all four films involves establishing a new form of home, and in doing so demonstrates how difficult it is to reintegrate credibly the changes experienced on the road into a domestic unit that is fulfilling for all its members.

A Hybrid Dynamical–Statistical Downscaling Technique. Part II: End-of-Century Warming Projections Predict a New Climate State in the Los Angeles Region

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (12) ◽  
pp. 4618-4636 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fengpeng Sun ◽  
Daniel B. Walton ◽  
Alex Hall
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Climate Models ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emission ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Global Climate Models ◽  
First Century ◽  
Climate Change Signal ◽  
Uncertainty Estimates ◽  
Twenty First Century

Abstract Using the hybrid downscaling technique developed in part I of this study, temperature changes relative to a baseline period (1981–2000) in the greater Los Angeles region are downscaled for two future time slices: midcentury (2041–60) and end of century (2081–2100). Two representative concentration pathways (RCPs) are considered, corresponding to greenhouse gas emission reductions over coming decades (RCP2.6) and to continued twenty-first-century emissions increases (RCP8.5). All available global climate models from phase 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) are downscaled to provide likelihood and uncertainty estimates. By the end of century under RCP8.5, a distinctly new regional climate state emerges: average temperatures will almost certainly be outside the interannual variability range seen in the baseline. Except for the highest elevations and a narrow swath very near the coast, land locations will likely see 60–90 additional extremely hot days per year, effectively adding a new season of extreme heat. In mountainous areas, a majority of the many baseline days with freezing nighttime temperatures will most likely not occur. According to a similarity metric that measures daily temperature variability and the climate change signal, the RCP8.5 end-of-century climate will most likely be only about 50% similar to the baseline. For midcentury under RCP2.6 and RCP8.5 and end of century under RCP2.6, these same measures also indicate a detectable though less significant climatic shift. Therefore, while measures reducing global emissions would not prevent climate change at this regional scale in the coming decades, their impact would be dramatic by the end of the twenty-first century.

scholarly journals Metanarrative Autofiction: Critical Engagement with Cultural Narrative Models

2022 ◽  
pp. 121-140
Author(s):  
Hanna Meretoja
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Cultural Narrative ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
New Form ◽  
Twenty First Century

AbstractThis chapter examines a new form of autofiction that has emerged in the twenty-first century, which the chapter proposes to call metanarrative autofiction. Such writing displays awareness of how our ways of narrating our lives are socially, culturally, and historically conditioned. The chapter conceptualizes metanarrativity in this context as a form of self-reflexive storytelling that makes narrative its theme, reflecting not only on the process of its own narration but also on the roles of cultural narrative models in making sense of our lives. The chapter discusses affordances of metanarrative autofiction in Annie Ernaux’s Les Années (The Years) (2008), Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Min kamp (My Struggle) (2009–2011), and the Finnish singer-songwriter Astrid Swan’s Viimeinen kirjani (2019, My Last Book).

scholarly journals Displaying and Celebrating the "Other": A Study of the Mission, Scope, and Roles of Ethnic Museums in Los Angeles

2004 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 49-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris ◽  
Carl Grodach
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ethnic Culture ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
American Cities ◽  
The City

In the last thirty years, ethnic museums have mushroomed in American cities. Although this is certainly a national phenomenon, it has been particularly evident in Los Angeles. In this paper we examine the genesis and evolution of these emerging institutions. We survey the mission, scope, and role of ethnic museums in Los Angeles, and we contrast them with the stated mission and scope of "mainstream" museums in the city. We further present case studies of three Los Angeles ethnic museums. The museums vary considerably in the ways they perceive their role in the community, the city, and the nation and in the preservation and display of ethnic culture. At their best, ethnic museums serve to make new art and histories more accessible and visible and provide a forum in which to debate contemporary issues of politics and identity. The paper highlights some of the tensions faced by ethnic museums as they seek to define their audience and role(s) in multi-ethnic, twenty-first century Los Angeles.

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