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The Artist’s Emergent Journey
No full textTo examine computers as a medium in the style of Marshall McLuhan, we must understand the origins of his own perceptions on the nature of media and his deep-seated religious impetus for their development. First we will uncover McLuhan’s reasoning in his description of the artist and the occult origins of his categories of hot and cool media. This will prepare us to recognize these categories when they are reformulated by cyberneticist Norbert Wiener and ethnographer Sherry Turkle. Then, as we consider the roles “black boxes” play in contemporary art and theory, many ways of bringing McLuhan’s insights on space perception and the role of the artist up to date for the work of defining and explaining cyberspace will be demonstrated. Through this work the paradoxical morality of McLuhan’s decision to not make moral value judgments will have been made clear. 
Ficino, Marsilio. On the Christian Religion. Eds. and trans. Dan Attrell, Brett Bartlett, and David Porreca
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Terpstra, Nicholas, ed. Reframing Reformation: Understanding Religious Difference in Early Modern Europe
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Welcome to the 2025 Issue of the Journal of Classroom Research in Literacy!
No full textWe are delighted to introduce the 15th edition of the Journal of Classroom Research in Literacy (JCRL)! Together, the articles in this issue illuminate the dynamic ways literacy is lived, taught, and understood, whether through the navigation of ideological divides, the amplification of personal voice, the creative processes of storytelling and play, or the affirmation of identity through inclusive pedagogy
Legal Orientalism
No full textThe fundamental question this paper sets out to answer is: How did Orientalist prejudices about Islamic law provide moral and rational justification for colonial domination of Muslim societies? This paper examines British India and French Algeria to show how “legal Orientalism”—Western assumptions about non-Western legal traditions—facilitated the "jural colonization" of these regions. It argues that in the nineteenth century European powers systematically dismantled Islamic legal systems by portraying them as despotic, inflexible, and incompatible with “modernity.” In both British India and Algeria, colonizers imposed their own legal regimes while incorporating aspects of Islamic law. This reconfiguration of knowledge and power became crucial in justifying the colonial endeavour
Melancholia Competes with Loss: A Critical Inquiry into the 5.12 Wenchuan Earthquake Memorial Museum’s Memoryscape Politics
No full textThis study examines the memoryscape of China’s 2008 Wenchuan earthquake as officialized by the 5.12 Wenchuan Earthquake Memorial Museum. As a response to popular scholarly discourse on heritage made of “difficult” pasts, analyses of the museum’s memory politics aim at critically inquiring into whether a monolithic “natural disaster” memorial can be diplomatic and therefore exempt from the paradigm for commemorating “difficult heritage” as polylithic pasts. Within this framework, the concepts of land art and melancholia are enlisted to illustrate an alternative view of the Wenchuan Memorial Museum’s hegemonic memory politics as a means to curtail and peripheralize individual entries to a nationalized trauma. Further investigation into the earthquake survivors’ “unnaturalized” modes of memory-making provides a Chinese perspective on natural disaster as myth and on the harm done by “naturalizing” irreconcilable identities in memory-making strategies. As contemporary investments in authoritative memory-making become internationally prevalent, this research reevaluates the ethics behind palimpsestic memorials in China and beyond
Accessing Gender Justice: Beyond Technocratic Interventions
No full textThis article examines contemporary access to justice discourse through the lens of gender justice, challenging the prevailing preference for technocratic interventions focused narrowly on court performance. It argues that such a limited perspective misunderstands the judiciary\u27s complex interpretive, expressive, and interventionary functions, especially vital in addressing gendered harms. By exploring the phenomenon of juridification - in short, the increasing salience of law - this analysis reveals how gender justice advocacy relies upon civil adjudication for both protection and broader social meaning. Yet current reforms often fail to recognize how inaccessible legal services and courts uniquely disadvantage women. The article calls for an expansive reimagining of access to justice, emphasizing the lawyer\u27s critical role in translating nuanced, morally charged grievances into legally cognizable claims. It concludes by cautioning that this expansive reimagining is critical to avoid some of the flattening effects of emerging artificially intelligent legal technologies, which present opportunities for improved access to justice but also risk entrenching existing inequities if not thoughtfully calibrated
Strength-based Indigenous public health emergencies research: Tl’etinqox methodology
No full textBy using Indigenous research methodologies with a strengths-based approach, the Tl’etinqox (Anaham) research team highlights sustainable community-led solutions suitable for the current and future public health emergencies. The purpose of the study was to identify Indigenous community-led solutions to public health emergencies, particularly climate change and pandemics in addition to build Tl’etinqox community research capacity through intergenerational cultural knowledge exchange. The research methods undertaken in this work describes study procedures developed by an Indigenous strength-based public health research community group that was comprised of an intergenerational Tl’etinqox study team from youth to Elder members working together. The strength-based Tl’etinqox research methods involved leadership engagement, online and offline family cluster recruitment, Healing Circle data collection, oral and written Nenqayni chi’h (Indigenous language) translations, and land-based knowledge mobilization and translation. A key finding is collective efforts led to a localization situated in Tl’etinqox knowledges of Indigenous health research methods, including an independent intergenerational community-based Indigenous research team. Tl’etinqox research methodology yielded a local, culturally-grounded approach that represents a strength-based Indigenized health research methods. Tl’etinqox research team members who led the study incorporated Tŝilhqot’in (Chilcotin) cultural practices, teachings, language, and land as essential components of the research methods. The relevance of the present study describes a localization approach of strength-based Indigenous community-based research, which has meaningful implications for understanding public health emergencies arising from the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change