International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Review (IJHSSR)
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A Geographical Study of Tourism Classification in Nashik District, Maharashtra State, India
Get PDFIn Nashik district, there is diversity in terms of tourism. Both religious and natural tourism centers are in the way of development in Nashik district and one can see that some of these religious tourism centers have been developed. Although this research paper is done from a descriptive point of view, it will help people to know what are the types and kinds of tourism available in Nashik district. Although various mediums and sources have been used for this research based on the secondary information, it has mainly used information from reference books and research papers on the internet and various websites
From the Margin to the Frames: The Ideology of the New-Gen Malayalam Cinema
Get PDFThe new generation (new-gen) Malayalam films have clearly made a turn from the previous generations of films varying from the melodrama, new wave and the middlebrow films. Though there are differences in technology used as well as content, the major difference was the treatment of individuals in a modern sense. The new-gen Malayalam films was global in its representation of characters. The distinct margins were removed and the society was presented as a whole
Mapping the Male Ego: A Comparative Study of Estaban Trueba in The House of the Spirits and Pedro Musquiz in Like Water for Chocolate
Get PDFBeing subjects of the higher order of life that extends beyond primitive means of sustenance, humans are designed to accustom themselves to the dynamic interrelations in society. Social interactions mould everyday life and are also instrumental in forming perceptions about the world. People are required to perform in multiple ways, and this gets them located in various subject positions. “Gender” and its implications as a social construct are of primary concern in this regard. Refined and reinterpreted over time, gender positively incorporates the possibilities for myriad levels of understanding associated with its practice. However, it is when people choose to selectively misconstrue gender roles that it becomes a problematic subject, thereby affecting the healthy existence of the male-female dichotomy in both personal and social spaces. Cultural conditioning and parental rearing are among the major factors that lead to the establishment of essentialist gender roles. Beginning with its base on the Freudian Psychoanalytic theory of male development, “masculinity” has come to be analysed from different standpoints by psychologists and literary theorists alike. In this paper, my attempt is to map the characteristics that outline the “masculinity” and “male ego” of the characters Esteban Trueba from The House of the Spirits and Pedro Musquiz from Like Water for Chocolate. Both the novels, though predominantly female-oriented, provide ample instances to explore the psyche of these not-so-minor male characters
The Imagined World of Chihiro: A Psychoanalytic Study of Miyazaki’s Spirited Away
Get PDFSpirited Away, released in 2001, stands out as it can be seen as Miyazaki’s attempt to funnel his anger towards modernization, how it affects the relationship between parents and children, the food fetishism, corruption of the society through capitalism, and last but not the least the sense of lost detachment that people, mostly children, face. This paper attempts a detailed study of the Anime and look into the character Chihiro, how she creates a fantastic realm as a means of escape from the real world and how she scopes with her traumatic memory through the magical journey that she takes
Perceived Influence of Religious Organisations as Political Socialisation Agents in Ondo State, Nigeria
Get PDFAfter sixteen years of democratic hiatus in Nigeria, the nation abrogated military governance and embraced democratic system of governance since 1999. However, it is observed that political participation is largely limited to voting, while political apathy is also witnessed during elections. Scholars have attributed this subject political participation to lack of political socialization. While several studies had dwelt on other agents of political socialization, few had ventured into researches on investigating religious organisations as agents Using a multistage sampling technique, a survey involving 540 participants. selected from the eighteen local governments of Ondo State who were given Likert Scaled questionnaires with a Cronbach Alpha measurement of range 0.65 and 0.79, supplied their perceptions on the issue of study. From their responses, the study garnered that submits that most leaders of the various religious organizations were largely aware of the various political happenings in the country, actively engaged in the political education and socialization of religious adherents. The study concludes that religious organizations act as political socialization agents but needs to engage in more enlightenment programmes that would encourage more and higher levels of political participation by religious adherents
A Comprehensive Analysis of Indian Women Labour Participation: Policy Recommendation for Growth and Inclusivity
Get PDFIn an economy that has faced unprecedented challenges due to the ongoing pandemic, the participation of women in the labour workforce has faced umpteen setbacks. The already declining trend in India’s women workforce participation faced further downtrend as the boundaries between rural and urban, men and women; increased. In practice, the gender as well as rural-urban divide became more stark in both organized and unorganized sectors of employment that led to inequality in the labour market
Spatialising the Quarantined Camp in Lawrence Wright’s The End of October
Get PDFStories about pandemic open up new possibilities of spaces. Traditional conceptions of space are metamorphised into novel contours as we confront and combat a pandemic scenario. Along with human beings, physical spaces are also forced to explore new patterns and norms. The bewildering spread of pandemic highlights the significance of spaces through which a disease navigates. Beginning from quarantining an infected person to containing the spread to burying the dead, spaces play a crucial role in these trying times. The present study attempts to look into the spatiality in pandemic literature and how existing social spaces get reconfigured by analysing the recent pandemic novel The End of October (2020) by Lawrence Wright. The study throws light on how the quarantine center represented in the novel can be viewed through the lens of Giorgio Agamben's concept of the camp
Irony in Victimisation: Psychological Trauma and Sexual Delinquency on the Anti-Heroic Characters of the Movies Orphan and Ratsasan
Get PDFPsycho-thriller movies are not just mere representations of mentally disabled or deranged people, but a true expression of their inner feelings and emotions on a higher degree of impact. The movies Orphan and Ratsasan exhibit a sense of otherness, which the major characters named Esther and Christopher as they are excluded from their ease and comforts of life, right from their childhood by people accusing them as insane or criminals. This paper thoroughly examines their characters to excavate the major hidden reasons behind their crimes that are portrayed in these movies. This study explores the social contexts of traumatic experiences and the narrative strategies writers employ in fictions of trauma to engage readers in the ethical dilemmas of trauma
Attitude of Undergraduate Students Towards Educational Learning Platform
Get PDFThe present study aims to examine the attitude of undergraduate students of Kohima College Kohima, Nagaland, towards the learning platform. A descriptive method was used for the survey. A total of 165 Undergraduate students of the college were the sample population. A snowball technique was adopted to select the students. An attitude scale (Likert type) was structured in Google form for gathering the information, which was circulated for a specific time period. The collected data was analysed for mean, S.D, t-test and post hoc test using Tukeys HSD. Tukeys HSD post hoc analysis showed a highly significant difference between conventional and online teaching platform (Q=14.2582, p<.01) as well as between online and a combination platform of conventional and online teaching (Q=11.5162, p<.01) method. On the other hand, the attitude of undergraduate students towards conventional and combined platforms of online and conventional methods did not differ significantly (Q=2.7420)
Articulating the Abject: Horror as a Subversive Tool in the Poems of Aleena’s Silk Root
Get PDFDalit women's bodies are often regarded as the site of disgust, impurity, and oppression. Dalit women are abjected into an inflexible position and their differentiated bodies are perpetually marked as the other. Dalit women's bodies are stripped of moral claims and had been treated as sexual slaves, which indicates the heightening of their abjection, as a major mode of social exclusion. Aleena's characters in her poetry collection Silk Root are mostly ghosts, demons, vampires, mentally ill etc. Just as these figures are alienated and excluded by the dominant social structure, so are the Dalits. Julia Kristeva’s theory of ‘abjection’ is useful in our understanding of the deplorable state of Dalit women. Dalit women’s subjectivity is tossed into a space of abjection which ratifies a two-fold existence of fear and desire. Just as the subject rejects the abject, the society reject the Dalits that threatens its stability. Dark skin, Dalit identity and female sexuality constitutes the abjectification of Dalit women