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Refashioning the Meanings of Dress in Palestinian Transnational Communities
Get PDFThis paper examines how Palestinian women in both the homeland and diaspora contexts have sustained and redefined cultural heritage through tatreez embroidery and revitalized the traditional thob since 1948. As designers, artisans, and entrepreneurs, they have transformed cultural dress into a site of socio-political agency, economic empowerment, and national identity-making. Their work not only preserves inherited forms but also recasts them as living cultural practices that resist colonial erasure and counter Orientalist and Western feminist narratives portraying Arab and Muslim women as passive. From post-Nakba efforts to safeguard thobs as tangible material testaments of Palestinian life to contemporary hybrid fashion lines circulating in global markets, women’s clothing practices disrupt male-centered nationalist frameworks and de-exoticize traditional dress. The tatreez-centered economy, often operating through NGOs and women’s cooperatives, fuses tradition and innovation, embedding political meaning in economic activity. By tracing these historical and transnational shifts, the paper shows how Palestinian women weave heritage into evolving narratives of modernity, nationalism, and diasporic belonging
Linguistic Identity: An Ostensive Definition
Get PDFThis dissertation offers an ostensive definition of linguistic identity illustrated through historical and literary examples, lived experience, and even public policy. Linguistic identity consists of three parts: idiolect, dialect, and linguistic agency. The idiolect is a speaker’s personal identity. The dialect is a speaker’s social identity. Linguistic agency is the synthesis of both. This is an attempt to clarify the nature of the relationship between language and the self. Linguistic identity is an aspect of identity that has received scant attention in philosophy—even amidst the focus on language and linguistic analysis in this discipline. The objective is to bring linguistic identity into the philosophical space as an object of inquiry. Hegemonic linguistic practices, especially those derived from historical acts of colonization and the ongoing reality of coloniality, are oppressive and discriminatory; not simply because they result in cultural domination, psychological trauma, material harm, or actual violence, but hegemonic linguistic practices also violate the autonomy of the person qua linguistic subject. This work relies heavily on the metaphysics of personal identity to articulate a conception of personhood that helps to elucidate the harm of linguistic injustice. These oppressive practices often, if not always, sever one’s relationship to their linguistic community, further coloniality, and result in forms of alienation that are often internalized and produce profound forms of self-estrangement
Rapid Implementation of Open-Access Pandemic Education for Global Frontline Healthcare Workers
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The recent global pandemic posed extraordinary challenges for healthcare systems. Frontline healthcare workers required focused, immediate, practical, evidence-based instruction on optimal patient care modalities as knowledge evolved around disease management. Objective
This course was designed to provide knowledge to protect healthcare workers; combat disease spread; and improve patient outcomes. Methods
A team of global healthcare workers responded by rapidly creating a competency-based online course. To promote transcultural applicability, the course was developed by an international team of more than 45 educators from over 20 countries. Course delivery included a built-in language translation tool, routine updates, and several innovative course design elements. User feedback was collected to determine efficacy of course content, structure, unique delivery elements, and delivery options. Results
An initial population of online learners (n = 147) living in 23 different countries and representing 22 languages completed the course and participated in post-course surveys. An additional population of learners (n = 505) attended an in-person offering of course materials. Course participants gave positive feedback and several requested additional courses in similar formats. Conclusion
Global open access education courses may provide needed resources to empower healthcare professionals during health crises. Responsive course design can accommodate diverse learner resources and transcultural applicability
Resilience as Accusation: A Critical Examination of Individual Resilience Training for Burnout Mitigation
Get PDFBurnout, a syndrome of work-related exhaustion and cynicism, is prevalent among nurses and is associated with workplace stressors. Resilience training programs are a prevalent method of burnout mitigation employed by healthcare institutions that aim to improve or alter how individuals respond to chronic stressors. Through the lens of General Systems Theory, we describe resilience training as a method of individualizing a systemic problem by problematizing a response to chronic stress exposure. Resilience training may furthermore serve as a mechanism which allows subversion of institutional responsibility for nurses’ well-being in the workplace. We describe several suggestions for nurses to resist being scapegoated for their responses to systemic problems. Sustainable change must include other disciplines and is likely to require multiple different avenues including individual (e.g., honoring meal breaks), institutional (e.g., increased leadership participation), legislative (e.g., mandatory staffing laws), collective (e.g., collective bargaining), and educational (e.g., emancipatory pedagogy) methods
Peroxi-Electrocoagulation for PFAS Mitigation: The Impact of Water Quality and Dissolved Organic Matter on Removal Pathways
No full textThe recent addition of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to the National Primary Drinking Water Regulation per- has increased the need for research on PFAS treatment technologies for water and wastewater. Electrochemical treatment processes have been widely investigated for PFAS removal. Peroxi-electrocoagulation (electrocoagulation paired with hydrogen peroxide (EC:H2O2)) was evaluated as a novel water treatment process for PFAS mitigation due to the multimechanistic removal pathways that can proceed during treatment, including chemical degradation via oxidation, and physical separation pathways such as sorption to flocs, flotation layer accumulation, and foam fractionation. This work investigated the impacts of varying water quality conditions and dissolved organic matter (DOM) composition on PFAS mitigation efficacy and the corresponding removal pathways. Sources of DOM were an additional point of focus to provide insight into the role of DOM characteristics (i.e., aromaticity, molecular weight) on the fate of PFAS in EC:H2O2. This aim was studied by conducting EC:H2O2 with five different types of DOM (including humic acid, fulvic acid, oxalic acid, salicylic acid, and one natural river DOM). EC:H2O2 was effective as a PFAS mitigation technology using a bicarbonate electrolyte matrix and different types of DOM (including reference DOM and natural DOM). Generally, PFAS removal was higher at pH 3 compared to pH 6.3, ostensibly due to enhanced oxidant yield, interactions between iron and PFAS, and foam formation. At pH 3, oxidation was a key route of removal for the carboxylic acids including perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and 5:3 fluorotelomer carboxylic acid (5:3 FTCA). A combination of chemical degradation and physical separation processes contributed to the removal of sulfonic acids including 6:2 fluorotelomer sulfonic acid (6:2 FTS) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS). However, in the presence of DOM, especially the \u3c 1 kDa low molecular weight and low aromatic autochthonous components, PFAS were more readily removed via physical sorption to the flotation layer, potentially due to the formation of DOM-iron-PFAS complexes. Regarding engineering applications, EC:H2O2 may have limited feasibility for PFAS mitigation in drinking water due to the highly acidic pH conditions needed and the release of metals during treatment. Accordingly, EC:H2O2 may better serve as a pretreatment and foam fractionation technology for higher strength wastewaters (such as membrane concentrates and industrial wastewaters) prior to more dedicated liquid-stream destructive technologies such as electrooxidation or supercritical water oxidation
