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Dramatizing History: Reading Bakhtin’s Carnival in Kee Thuan Chye’s Plays
Get PDFThis paper explores the representations of Bakhtin’s notion of the Carnival in two revisioned historical plays of Kee Thuan Chye. As a firm believer of freedom of expression, Kee Thuan Chye employs his plays as a medium to express his criticism towards and resistance against authority. His plays We Could **** You, Mr. Birch (1994) and Swordfish, then the Concubine (2009) form the corpus of this study. This study investigates how Bakhtin’s notion of the Carnival is represented in the plays which are reconstructions of history. Specifically, the constructs of the Carnival like the reversal of social hierarchy, grotesque realism, ambivalent laughter as a form of mockery, and self-fashioning from New Historicism are used to frame the analyses of the plays. The discussion reveals that those who were in power, namely the rulers and aristocrats of the periods evident in the plays, were guilty of various follies and flaws. The constructs of the Carnival also illustrate how historical truths can be questionable and identities can be refashioned by disregarding boundaries, structures, and hierarchies
From Crisis to Specialty Coffee the Case of Nicaraguan Smallholder Cooperatives and Jesuit Business Education for Sustainability and Justice
Get PDFProject-based service-learning has been proven to be an effective experiential learning opportunity that complements standard curricula in business schools. Seattle University (SU) has collaborated with its sister university, Universidad de Centro Americana (UCA) in Managua, Nicaragua, since 2015 on several project-based service-learning experiences focused on sustainable coffee farming practices and the implications that climate change may have on coffee farms and communities. This partnership with UCA and coffee cooperatives has its roots in the global coffee crisis of the early 2000s and has produced multiple projects that support farmers entering the specialty coffee markets. This paper as such presents the outcomes of our annual field research that took place in Penãs Blancas, Nicaragua in March 2018. Using the framework of sustainable coffee in light of environmental, social, and economic sustainability objectives, we provide evidence that many farmers in Nicaragua have been experiencing issues with their farms’ sustainability. Our findings, moreover, reveal that the direct trade model used by the SU student-run social enterprise Café Ambiental is the most effective means of ensuring the farmers’ economic sustainability, thereby allowing them to develop the environmental sustainability of their farms as well as improve their family and community health, education, and overall livelihoods for enhanced social sustainability. This social enterprise model created by SU students takes significant steps toward fulfilling the needs and improving the lives of coffee farmers in Nicaragua while preserving the land at the same time so future generations can grow quality coffee. Finally, we believe that our project has potential that is transferable to other Jesuit higher education institutions that utilize and pursue similar structures and objectives
The Role of System Trust and Risk Perception in Providing Assets for Collaborative Consumption Schemes
Get PDFThe emergence of the sharing economy has fueled the development of collaborative consumption (CC) schemes around the world. The promise of non-ownership particularly in the peer-to-peer environment makes it attractive for a plethora of users to engage in practices such as carsharing and the rental of private holiday accommodations or tool supply from their peers. Yet while financial and environmental benefits for both users and providers do exist, providers of private goods may be reluctant in many cases to offer their belongings for sharing. This study thus draws on social exchange theory to examine the key role of generalized, barterand money-balanced reciprocity as a pivotal scheme characteristic that predicts the intention of providers to participate in peer-to-peer CC schemes. As such, the findings from two empirical studies provide evidence that consumers are most eager to provide their personal assets against a reciprocal compensation where perceived risk functions as a mediator of the explained effect. Market mediation is also used to show that CC schemes are more attractive to consumers when facilitated by a non-profit market intermediary (vs. a for-profit intermediary), emphasizing the propensity of consumers to escape the market while sharing. A mechanism in which system trust mediates the proposed relationships is therefore suggested
Binagyong mga Pahina: Pagsibol ng mga Akdang Pambatang Pilipino Hinggil sa Kamalayang Pandisaster, 2010-2016
No full textBilang pagsasalikop ng kapanahong kasaysayang pampanitikan at ekokritisismo, iginigiit ng pag-aaral na ito na namukadkad ang panitikang pambatang Pilipino na pumapaksa sa disaster ng mga bagyo noong panahon ng pamamahala ni Pangulong Benigno S. Aquino III (2010-2016). Maihahanay sa mga salik ng pamumukadkad na ito ang malaganap na kalunos-lunos na karanasan sa pananalasa ng mga bagyo tulad ng super typhoon Yolanda, ang aksiyon (at kawalang-aksiyon) ng gobyerno, at personal na obserbasyon ng mga manlilikha ng akdang pambata. Gamit ang berbal-biswal na panunuri sa mga piling picturebook, tatalastasin ang mga dalumat ng vulnerabilidad at resilience na taglay ng mga akda, na magpapasibol ng mga pagmumuni sa gampanin ng mga akdang pambata sa kaalaman at kamalayang pandisaster
Ekolohikong Imahinasyong Filipino: Bagyong Yolanda, Pagbabago sa Klima, at Imperyalismo sa Tula at Tuluyang Filipino
Get PDFGinagawang lunsaran ng papel ang antolohiyang pampanitikan na Agam: Filipino Narratives on Uncertainty and Climate Change upang dalumatin ang tinatawag na ekolohikong imahinasyong Filipino. Ipapakita ng papel kung paano tumutugon at tumutuligsa ang mga manunulat na Pilipino sa nararanasan ngayong karahasang dulot pagbabago sa klima sa pamamagitan ng pag-uugnay ng krisis pangekolohiya ng planeta sa panahong Antroposeno sa mga ibinaong kasaysayan ng imperyalismo, kolonyalismo, at neokolonyalismo, sa anyo ng global na pagkaunlad na kapitalista. Ipahahayag ng mga susuriing akdang pampanitikan ang isang ekokritikang Filipino na bumabalik sa karanasang pantao, sa pamamagitan ng isang ekopoetika ng pag-aalala, upang madala ang napakalawak na pagbabago sa klima sa loob ng lunan ng pag-unawa sa pag-init na global bilang nagmumula sa sa mga kapangyarihang kolonyal, at ilugar tayo upang maunawaan ang mga usapin ng katarungang pangkalikasan
Discontinuity and Continuity of Devotion The Virgin of Guadalupe from Mexico to Makati
Get PDFThis paper echoes the question of Horacio de la Costa in the talk that he gave in 1968: “What is the meaning of Makati?” The talk intended to guide the development of the Business District by the principles of Catholic social teaching. This paper tries to provide a path to ascertain the meaning of Makati by contextualizing it within two barangays: Guadalupe Viejo and Guadalupe Nuevo. The paper performs a philosophical understanding of a city by situating it within the history of religions and the philosophy of religion. In the first part, it rehearses the history of devotion to the Virgin of Guadalupe in Spain and Mexico, and how it impacted the production of space in Makati. The second part treats the devotion to the Virgin of Guadalupe in relation to Mexican intellectual history. Here, the paper demonstrates that the devotion has spawned at least three intellectual questions: namely, its relationship with Medieval Theology, Mexican national identity, and the objectives of scientific historicity. The meaning of Makati is irreducible to its economic aims, and is inseparable from religious and intellectual inquiry