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The Polish national identity issue in the second part of the XIX century
No full textAbout two hundred years ago a destructive chain of events triggered one of the most difficult issues in the European history. The Polish Question is a result of centuries-old Russian-Polish contradictions and the heart of this problem is still not found. Several generations of the historians try to discover the “pressure points” of the Polish Question and find a theoretical way to build a new effective Russian-Polish interaction through the prism of the recognition and repairing past wrongs. Such a persistent and unresolved problem must continue to be on a present research agenda. In the framework of the present research, the National Identity Issue is viewed in the context of the Polish Question in the times when the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth is divided into three parts but still has an unshakable determination to struggle for independence and surviving as a nation. Analysing the National Identity Issue and the National Identity preservation problem as an important subsystem of Polish Question is the main goal of the present research. Remarkable, the self-identification process of the polish nation is uninterrupted. Being divided into parts for a long time the polish society is able to accept the challenges throughout this ordeal and save their national identity
Promoting health literacy in chronic illness care: challenges and opportunities
No full textThis presentation aims to share the 10-year research experience in health literacy in Chinese population. By the time when I started with health literacy research, not many people were aware of health literacy issues. There is a big debate why we need ‘health literacy’ as we have already developed quite well in health promotion. How to measure ‘health literacy’? What should be measured? The lack of culturally sensitive validated instruments for Chinese population was a big challenge. Without proper instruments, it is hard to extend our understanding of health literacy and its relationship to other health outcomes. My project team therefore started to develop health literacy scales (Chinese Health Literacy Scale for Diabetes (CHLSD), Chinese Health Literacy Scale for Chronic Care (CHLCC) and Chinese Health Literacy Scale for Low Salt Consumption). These instruments are now publicly accessible and being stored in Boston University Health Literacy Tool Shed. Investigation has been made easy with validated instruments. The understanding of the relationship between health literacy and other health outcomes (hospitalisation, use of emergency room, etc.) was found. The most interesting one is the relationship with sunlight exposure behaviour (a way to build up vitamin D). Flying all the way to American Los Angeles, I then recognised how culture has affected our health belief and behaviour. A qualitative study was then done to explore how health literacy, culture, social environment was interlinked. Health literacy is a type of power - we advocate the development of interventions to support individuals to build up health literacy. Typical example is the use of comic books to improve medication compliance and health literacy among older adults (this was a service learning project in which students were trained to provide health literacy training to the residents of public estates). Technology platforms (such as mobile app, digital camera, mobile phone, social media such as Facebook, wearable device) are the means to support individuals to access information, interpret the gained health messages and make final health decision. A 2-year prospective study clearly showed how we use a mobile app to identify individuals with undiagnosed diabetes and pre-diabetes and support their growth in health literacy and health decision making (with the recommendations given in the app, high-risk app users modified their dietary habits and reduced sedentary lifestyles). In the recent years, focuses are made on dementia literacy (mental health literacy) and how technology can be used to support caregivers’ access and interpret health information. In conclusion, health literacy is still an area of interest which I think I need another 10 to 20 years to investigate. Research is warrant in health literacy for all nations – it is all about our capacity to improve our health
Tentative lessons from the pandemic about the world we live in
No full textModerator: Maria Lucia TEIXEIRA GARCIA (Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil)
Speaker: JOMO Kwame Sundaram (Khazanah Research Institute, Malaysia
Book Launch : Michael Hudson : The destiny of civilization : finance capitalism, industrial capitalism or socialism (English edition)
No full textSpeakers (5 mins each): Michael HUDSON (Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends, USA) Ashley DAYMAN (Australia
What is it to hope?
No full textModerators: Ackbar ABBAS (University of California, Irvine, USA) LAU Kin Chi (Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China)
Speaker (60-90 mins) Gayatri Chakravorty SPIVAK (Columbia University, USA
擴展共享廚房的夢想 : 共廚家作 = Kitchen incubator : the case of Sharing Kitchen
No full text陳秉鳳女士（共廚家作服務主任）分享共廚家作的成立緣由、核心工作及對未來的展望，如何透過共享閒置廚房的空間，讓大眾嘗試到家廚的手藝
Chinese learning goes West : the reception and development of traditional Chinese thought in modern Europe, North America, and beyond
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The Chinese century and the City of Gold : on race and labor
No full textThis paper examines how the history of racialized migrant labour across the region makes possible capital accumulation among Chinese migrants to South Africa. Decades after the end of mine migrancy, the system of racialized migrant labour on which mining depended, Chinese migrant traders rely on the casual labour of an African precariat, migrants from the main sending countries to the mines who continue generations of journeying to the City of Gold and are racialized anew. Engaging ethnographic fieldwork with historical analysis, Huang illustrates how circular migration and the devaluation of African migrant labour born on the goldfields persist, perhaps unexpectedly, at Chinese wholesale malls located along Johannesburg\u27s old mining belt. The paper proposes a palimpsestic approach to thinking about Chinese and African futures. The unfolding Chinese Century does not begin and end with the arrival of Chinese migrants but is layered with longer histories of racial capitalism, colonialism, migrancy, and extraction in the Golden City, including the debris of European imperial centuries