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"A Necessary Evil": Prostitution in Diverse Early Modern Societies
No full textThis essay examines an institution as old as time: prostitution. While sex work has never been a welcomed facet in most societies around the world, one can imagine how public opinion deplored the practice in the early modern period when religious devotion and morality were often at the center of values. However, prostitution has been considered to fulfill specific purposes, including protecting morality for those worthy and providing an outlet for the often insatiable desires of men. In a world where men were often prevented from releasing the excesses of their humours by the institution of marriage and Christian tenants, and women were prevented from making their own money, prostitution seemed to embody a solution, making it a worthwhile institution in society. This begs the question of how prostitution was either suppressed or regulated in early modern societies. This paper finds that due to the moral and economic advantages prostitution could bring to society, it was often regulated in many early modern societies as governments recognized the opportunity to capitalize off the practice. However, both moral and economic disadvantages also prevented its legalization and promotion. Therefore, prostitution presented a nuanced and complex predicament for early modern governments and was therefore either suppressed or controlled in varying times and places
Post-Organic Forms: The Poetics of Bituminous Waste
No full textA fossil fuel used since antiquity for myriad purposes, bitumen and its dirty extraction have come under increased scrutiny on the verge of global climate catastrophe. This essay traces the circulation of rhetorical strategies that have been used to represent bitumen in a transhistorical poetic tradition. Perhaps unexpectedly, from the earliest appearances of bitumen in poetry, writers representing the fossil fuel—from Homer, Plutarch, and Ovid to John Milton and the English Romantic poets—have evolved a continuous critique of bitumen as a form of waste that troubles the distinction between organic and inorganic matter. As this essay explores the circulation of bituminous tropes in literary history, it employs a posthumanist framework to ask how the poetics of bitumen might engender a new hermeneutics of waste that has the potential to reorient Humanist theories of literary analysis away from “organic” and towards “post-organic” forms
About This Issue
No full textWelcome to Volume 28, Number 1 of the Journal of the International Society for Teacher Education (JISTE). This issue features articles that were presented at the 2023 Annual ISfTE Seminar in Bhutan, hosted by Kezang Sherab and Ugyen Choden at the Royal University of Bhutan under the theme "Education in the Post Covid-19 Pandemic." We are delighted to include these and other contributions from our International Society for Teacher Education (ISfTE) members in this edition.
Together, the articles in this issue cover various aspects of education and teaching, including innovative lesson planning methods, frameworks for reviewing primary education, holistic skill development programs, revised assessment models for pre-service teachers, and the importance of teacher dispositions in inclusive education. These studies emphasize enhancing educational practices, fostering growth in both teachers and students, and applying context-specific solutions to improve learning outcomes
Identity Shifts of Content Area Teachers in the Early Stages of English as Second Language Professional Development Program
No full textTeachers’ professional identities are continuously being shaped by new knowledge gained through continued coursework and professional development (PD). Traditionally, PD programs and coursework tend to focus on assets such as knowledge or competencies but forego helping students answer questions about their professional identity. This study examines the professional identity development of content-area teachers earning an English as a Second Language endorsement in an online PD program. Using thematic analysis to analyze reflective writings, the researchers examine the identity development of these teachers. Even with the short duration of the PD, changes in professional identity occurred. Shifts included participants’ views on appropriate methods and instructional strategies in the ELL classrooms, their contextual understanding to support ELLs based on their teaching experience and pedagogical approaches, and their overall perception about the social constructs ELLs are experiencing. The change allowed the participants to increase their effectiveness in working with ELLs
Faire saillir le quotidien ? Les formes aphoristiques françaises contemporaines
No full textExamining the tensions between everyday life and contemporary poetic aphorism, this article shows that the aphoristic genre explores a conflicting structure between salience and seriality.Après avoir exploré les tensions entre le quotidien et l’aphorisme poétique contemporain, ainsi que la façon dont les évolutions récentes de ce genre les reconfigurent, l’article s’emploie à montrer que le genre aphoristique s’avère particulièrement à même d’approcher la nature de cette notion labile, en vertu de caractéristiques essentielles découlant de sa brièveté, mais aussi de sa structure conflictuelle, entre saillance et sérialité. S’y déploie alors un geste éminemment paradoxal de légitimation du quotidien dont la dimension politique est active à différents niveaux
Entre proie et prédateur : un récit de chasse dans la littérature québécoise ?
No full textIntroduction au dossier "Entre proie et prédateur : le récit de chasse dans la littérature québécoise
Ecologies of De/colonization: Embodied Caribbean Diasporic Perspectives
No full textIn this photo essay, we take readers through ecologies of de/colonization that we engage with in our creative methodology of walking and talking. As academics called upon to do equity, diversity and decolonization work in colonial institutions, we reflect on our location in lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ lands (“Victoria, BC, Canada”) and the circuits that extend to the Caribbean archipelago of our origins and families (Borikén/Puerto Rico and Jamaica). We take up the tasks of collectively reflecting on how to care for our communities and for each other in an interconnected world amidst socio-ecological crisis. Our method that emerged during the pandemic is specific to our embodiments “here” as settlers of Caribbean roots whose family histories “there” include both complicity with and domination by colonization, trans-Atlantic enslavement, and forced migration. We are attempting to learn, as we hold the messiness of institutions who want straightforward paths to remediate racism, colonization, and the like. Our walking and talking follow a meandering and re-visiting process prompted by our institutional contexts and circumstances, and also by serendipity, surprise and beauty offered through non-human elements on our walks. The photos evidence these moments and the connections to “here-there” in ecologies of de/colonization. We invite readers on our circuitous paths that involve deconstructing, and building or affirming, noticing, following literal paths and those in scholarly-activist circles. In the creative process of drawing relations of the here-there, and attending to serendipity, ancestral spirit, and more-than-human agency, we witness and imagine worlds otherwise (King et al., 2020). These circuitous roots and routes offer possibilities of reckoning, repairing and re-worlding
Rebirth | Revolt | Resurrect – A Conversation about Uhuru Phalafala’s "Mine Mine Mine" (Creative Intervention)
No full textKitchen Table Pedagogy: A Three-way Conversation on Animating Knowing and Becoming for Health Justice
No full textThe three of us (be)come together, yes on Zoom calls and in Google docs, and in a way that re-imagines the sitting together at a well-worn kitchen table to animate our current shared preoccupations. The table has seen many conversations before us, so it’s well-worn by feminist scholars who were also troubled, yearning, and adamant about leaving their marks. We have come to, become at, this type of table for centuries, sitting together preparing food, folding laundry, and washing up, all while also reckoning that our stories matter and can make a difference. In a context that is both practical and intellectual – centring fat liberation in public health nutrition – how do we remain good scholarly support to one another in and through challenging times?
Times of dissent.
Times of tedium.
This chapter reveals the stories we need most now as we grapple with our places in the neoliberal university and public health pedagogy, specifically as a critique of policies that we read as non-liberatory. We grapple with how our complicity within these spaces might be considered from a place of mutual support and a shared commitment to unlearning and unsettling colonial ways of knowing, especially as we contemplate the problematics of public health imperatives regarding “intuitive eating” and health behaviour change. And we ask what this means for scholarship that is accountable to liberation, that is, personal survival and collective healing and learning
Pens and Soap: Comparing British Advertising from the Victorian Era and Great War Era through Historiographic and Female Lenses
No full textAdvertising style and methods in Britain underwent a drastic change following the outbreak of the First World War. As mascot wardrobes were replaced with military uniforms, everyday Britons were flooded with new styles of advertising, which quickly linked consumer goods with the war effort. This paper helps understand this phenomenon by analyzing and discussing several contemporary advertisements through the lens of British Women and soldiers. Specific case studies of Pears’ Soap and the “Swan” Pen reveal the themes and underlying pressures of the war effort that each advertisement of the day began to show. Through these methods, this paper demonstrates how the iconic advertisements and propaganda of the Great War era had lasting effects on the British population, both soldiers and civilians alike