The Place of the Dead in the Mediterranean. A Sicilian Experience

Death during the journey to Europe is both a spectre hanging over border crossers and a concrete reality. It is also a very present issue within the society that finds itself forced to deal with these inert bodies. Drawing on a field study has been conducted since January 2018, we focus here on how the bodies found at sea and taken to the port of Catania (Sicily) are managed, exploring both their itinerary and how a small group of people from the city has become involved in a project to give them a name and a biography.

DISTRAÇÕES. O olhar, a fotografia e a construção da vida urbana.

O presente ensaio enseja uma reflexão sobre a construção da experiência da vida citadina partindo do pressuposto da teoria benjaminiana da distração. Tendo como método o princípio benjaminano da montagem, as fotos que compõem esse ensaio foram cuidadosamente construídas tendo como objeto elementos banais do universo material cotidiano, o ensaio tem como objetivo permitir aos observadores uma consideração sobre a experiência da cidade contemporânea que não se feche ao significado direto e explícito daquilo que é demonstrado (a indexicaldiade da fotografia), mas que se torne à ação da memória, do ato de registro (arquivo), da realidade concreta e da própria distração como elemento capaz de romper com a obviedade da recepção sensorial da vida urbana.Palavras-chave: Distração. Teoria da Distração. Vida Urbana. Walter Benjamin. Recepção sensorial. DISTRACTIONS. Gaze, photography and the building of urban life. Abstract: The current essay consists of a reflection on the construction of the experience of citadin life departing from the principles of Walter Benjamin’s theory of distraction. By making use of the method of montage, the photographs that compose this essay were carefully constructed having banal elements of everyday material culture as their object, aiming at allowing observers to consider the experience of contemporary city anew; one that is not closed up in the direct and explicit meaning of what is shown (the indexicality of photograph), but that turns its attention to the action of memory, to the act of registering (archiving), and to concrete reality and distraction itself as elements capable of shredding the obviousness of urban life’s sensory reception.Keywords: Distraction. Theory of Distraction. Urban Life. Walter Benjamin. Sensory reception.

Reasons for Lying in Kindergarten Children from the Kindergarten Teachers’ Point of View: A Comparative Study between Males and Females

Lying is considered a dangerous tendency among children if it has become a habit. It results in many social problems, such as child’s loss of confidence, lack of others’ respect to him, and his lack of respect to the desired values ​​of the society, such as honesty and trust. Consequently, he will be led to a deviation when he becomes old; especially if the child’s socially unaccepted behavior has not been directed. The research, thus, aims to examine the causes of lying in the most important stage of children’s life; that is, between (4-6) years. Such an aim helps to know about the individual reasons of lying among males and females from teachers’ perspectives. To meet the objective of the study, a number of (128) children has been randomly selected from the children of the Kindergarten Department during the academic year 2019-2020, together with (28) she-teachers. In addition, a questionnaire has been designed for the purpose of discovering the reasons behind a child’s lying in the Kindergarten. The researchers have used many statistical means, such as: T-test for one sample and T-test for two independent samples, Pearson correlation coefficient, and Kay square to find the difference between home and kindergarten regarding reasons of lying. Results have shown that the fe(male) children in the kindergarten live in a social environment that lacks honesty; especially the case with male children. Moreover, female kindergarten children enjoy a wide imagination; which is characterized by being exaggerating, abundance,, creativity, and lack of adherence to concrete reality. The reasons to lie for kindergarten male children are higher than that of female’.

Musik bukan Pekerjaan: Distingsi dan Transgresi dalam Karier Bermusik Musisi Metal Ekstrem Yogyakarta

This article focuses on the separation between music and work that has been done by Yogyakarta’ extreme metal musician. Along with a deeper explanation of youth cultural practices in Yogyakarta, this article also provides a gap bridge between youth culture and youth transition perspective. In order to obtain those purposes, this article utilizes youth culture perspective and youth transition perspective approach, together with field and doxa. Regarding the research method, this article uses qualitative ethnographic approach and has been done through six months data collecting. This research approach was chosen in order to capture the concrete reality that has been experienced by research informants. Based on the findings analysis, which has been done both textually and interpretively, the separation between music and work among informants, on the one hand could be understood as a strategy to maintain informants' pride within the extreme metal scene. On the other hand, this separation also could be defined as a strategy to maintain informants' social position, especially as Indonesian middle class.

The photographic discourse of the funds of the Institute of History of Cuba. An analysis for new uses

Photography is the most widely found unwritten textual document in the archives. For this reason, we propose a first approach to the photo-graphic funds of the historical archive of the Institute of History of Cu-ba (IHC) from a comprehensive perspective as a photographic corpus that carries a discourse and not in a fragmented way. For this we will use serialized reading, according to the themes, because it is in the col-lections and archival funds where photography acquires, as an informa-tive medium, true meaning. We will refer only to documentary photog-raphy, which in its testimonial quality preserves the perishable to the collective memory by referring to what happened in concrete reality with a specific time and space, always from the subjectivity of the pho-tographer, which is why it can be used as a historical source of knowledge. Through this work we propose a new institutional use, from the inside archive, that contributes to rescuing the patrimonial values of these funds as one of the essential photographic narratives of the history of Cuba and at the same time perfecting ourselves as public servants. It is not a simple case study, the Institute of History of Cuba is a unique institution in the network of social sciences in Cuba.

Estrategia de enseñanza de conceptos básicos de educación financiera para niños en edad escolar

El objetivo de esta investigación es proponer una estrategia de enseñanza de los conceptos básicos financieros dirigida a niños en edad escolar, aplicando el Método del Caso como herramienta didáctica. Para ello se partió del principio de que la conciencia financiera en el individuo se puede desarrollar desde la niñez, asumiendo las teorías de Educación Financiera de Ruiz H (2011) y apoyada por la UNICEF como el proceso mediante el cual, se logra un mejor conocimiento de los diferentes productos financieros. Por otro lado la investigación se sustenta en la teoría de Rosker (2006) quien indica que el Método del Caso es una descripción de una situación real que incluye un problema, una oportunidad o la toma de una decisión dentro de una realidad social. Metodológicamente, se considera como una investigación proyectiva, de corte descriptivo y de campo, por tratarse de la elaboración de una propuesta con base en una realidad concreta. Se puede concluir que la estrategia propuesta es una contribución en la orientación de los niños para desarrollar su capacidad de investigación y control sobre su propia vida y además, se inclinen a participar en los asuntos que les afectan a ellos y a sus comunidades, como ciudadanos social y económicamente empoderados, garantizando que la experiencia de los niños en los emprendimientos sociales y financieros sea de manera positiva, segura y con aptitudes valiosas, creando un Impacto social. ABSTRACT The objective of this research is to propose a strategy for teaching basic financial concepts aimed at school-age children, applying the Case Method as a didactic tool. For this, it was started from the principle that financial awareness in the individual can be developed from childhood, assuming the theories of Financial Education of Ruiz H (2011) and supported by UNICEF as the process through which, a better knowledge is achieved of the different financial products. On the other hand, the research is based on the theory of Rosker (2006) who indicates that the Case Method is a description of a real situation that includes a problem, an opportunity or the making of a decision within a social reality. Methodologically, it is considered as a projective, descriptive and field research, as it involves the elaboration of a proposal based on a concrete reality. It can be concluded that the proposed strategy is a contribution in guiding children to develop their capacity for investigation and control over their own lives and also, they are inclined to participate in matters that affect them and their communities, as social citizens and economically empowered, ensuring that the experience of children in social and financial endeavors is positive, safe and with valuable skills, creating a Social Impact.

Hannah Arendt, antiracist rebellion, and the counterinsurgent logic of the social

Arendt’s concept of the social is at the heart of her interventions in racial politics in the United States. Readers of Arendt often focus on whether her distinction is too rigid to accommodate the reality of US racial politics, or whether it can be altered to be more capacious. The central issue here is that of closing the gap between conceptual abstraction and concrete reality. However, by extending our archive regarding the social and political beyond Arendt—to work in subaltern studies and the thought of Arendt’s radical Black contemporaries—I argue that we can craft a concept of the social as a counterinsurgent logic by which political acts are reduced to social disorder, neutralizing the political edge and novelty of revolt. The distinction between the social and political is therefore useful not to describe or categorize kinds of revolts or struggles but to critically examine the way they are interpretatively and concretely transformed from ‘political’ to ‘social’ struggles. Situating Arendt among contemporary revolutionaries such as James and Grace Lee Boggs, I argue that they mobilized such a distinction, asking not what rebellions were but what might be made of them.

PENGARUH PERCAKAPAN NEGATIF KELUARGA TERHADAP PEMEROLEHAN BAHASA ANAK USIA 3—4 TAHUN

The effect of negative conversation occurs intensively in children aged 3-4 years because it is a period of imitation. This period is one of the stages of socialization that a child gets within his family's scope. This study aims to comprehensively examine the negative conversations that affect language acquisition, especially phonological acquisition, mainly acquiring vowels that occur in SM and NS. The research method used is a qualitative descriptive method. The study results revealed that negative conversation significantly affected children's language acquisition and its characteristics. The concrete reality at this stage, especially when the family says anything, then gradually the child brain area will process it. The child will repeat it. This phenomenon occurs repeatedly, and then it is not imagined that he will speak these words spontaneously. A child tends to say it without understanding the meaning. Still, it will affect his character if the negative sentences internalized to his thought. Adopting this negative conversation tends to have unideal characteristics because a child does not imitate his negative words. Still, he tries to understand the meaning uttered by the person closest to him. In this case, the study results reveal that negative conversations significantly affect children's language acquisition and affect their characteristics. The conclusion is that language acquisition through an unfavourable exchange is obtained by internal (family) factors and external factors.

THE USE OF VIRTUAL REALITY TECHNOLOGY IN THE ART PRODUCTION PROCESS IN THE CONTEXT OF DIGITAL ART

Technological developments in today's world, which has made significant breakthroughs towards digitalization thanks to the electronics and computer revolution, are in many areas from science to art; it gives us new opportunities for research, application and experience. Virtual Reality (VR) technology is one of these advanced technological advances that offer new possibilities to dozens of areas. VR technology completely cuts off communication with the outside world (with concrete reality) and offers its user the new reality claim through the representation of virtuality ( numeracy). Today, virtual reality applications have started to be used in many different areas from education to entertainment sector. The concept of art, which has the desire and potential to make use of the technological possibilities of its period as much as possible throughout history, has not been indifferent to the accelerated and increasing development of VR technology. In particular, digital art has started to benefit from the great potential offered by VR technology, where it captures a new application area and a new experience management, in terms of art production and presentation. This article, written in the light of the information mentioned, is a research study on the possibilities that VR technology offers to today's digitalized art. Within the scope of the study, current infouts are made through examples of artistic application on the field mentioned and focus on the potential for use of SG technology in the artistic production process and the contributions it brings to the field of art. Keywords: Virtual reality, digital art, cyber space, technology and art

System or Process? A Meta-theoretical Reflection on the Nature of the Firm

The paper revisits the fundamental question of the nature of the firm by contrasting two philosophic worldviews suggested by process philosophy and the Luhmannian systems theory. Whereas the former worldview takes reality to be internally related, the latter ones underscores the tendency of social systems, such as firms, to disregard much of this interrelatedness. The productive tension between these worldviews suggests that the firm provides a context where systemic imperatives meet the rich concrete reality of human life. The role of the firm is to house those aspects of this reality that are too organic to be accommodated by the abstract “language of prices” corresponding, in institutional economics terms, to the reliance on market governance. The major examples of these aspects explored in the paper are dynamic capabilities and business ethics, both of which hold the potential to improve the firm’s sustainability, both economic and social. The proposed contrast between the process-philosophic and systems-theoretic worldviews thus illuminates not only the nature of the firm but also the managerial relevance of corporate sustainability instruments.