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Decolonizing 20th Century Consumerism: Analyzing the Role of Advertising in Amauta
Get PDFIn simplest terms, Amauta is a socialist revista (magazine) primarily conceived of and executed by Peruvian political activist José Carlos Mariátegui, with the principal ambition of providing a space for the organic and spontaneous promulgation of a uniquely Peruvian form of Marxism. It is exceedingly difficult, however, to discuss Mariátegui’s brainchild in simple terms. Beyond its role as a socialist publication, Amauta was an arbiter of culture, at once negotiating Mariátegui’s passion for the development of a Peruvian national identity with his efforts at integrating Peru into the revolutionary zeitgeist of the early 20th century; it was a Spanish-language codex for the Latin American populace, providing integral translations of significant works of discursivity, like Freud and Marx, alongside contemporary theorists, like Shaw and Sorel; it was a disseminator of current events, a tool for the education of the masses (as its name, a Quechuan word roughly translated to “wise one,” suggests), and a platform for social advocacy and artistic exploration. It was visual, literary, and tactile. It was an effort to capture and encapsulate the fractured parts of modernity and piece them together into something akin to a working whole. Unlike the dogmatism of the European revolutionaries that Mariátegui encountered during his time in exile, the artifice of Amauta was founded, above all else, on practicality and evolution
The Representation of Women with Disabilities in Shahira Al-Hasan’s Cochlea’s Secrets
Get PDFThis study examines the representation of women living with disabilities in Shahira Al-Hassan’s novel Cochlea’s Secrets. This is an important endeavor as it highlights fiction’s role in advocating for women with disabilities, particularly in the Arab region. Such a study is crucial for increasing awareness and support for women with disabilities, especially in literary writing. Also, worldwide readers can learn about the impact of Arab novelists in supporting women with disabilities. Fiction, like the media, plays a pivotal role in promoting the status of women living with disabilities and enhancing their societal role. By addressing this topic from the perspective of an Arab narrative, the study aims to highlight the contributions of Arab novels in addressing injustices against women living with disabilities and exploring opportunities for their empowerment. The research adopts a structural-formative approach by studying characters’ psychological and social relationships within their environment. This approach aligns with the study’s emphasis on understanding the portrayal of women with disabilities in the Arabic novel by examining the psychological impact of their interactions within society. The article also integrates a subjective narrative voice an explicit feminist methodology that validates lived experiences as both the personal and the political. Research in the Arab region remains incomplete thus leaving a gap in the understanding of the experiences of women with disabilities and their societal roles. A second feature of the research examines how this topic is portrayed in narratives by offering a fresh yet underappreciated perspective, namely Arab fiction’s portrayal of women with disabilities, their psychological worlds, their suffering and obstacles, and their potential for sustainable growth. The paper also seeks to reveal how Arab novelistic innovation bridges the gender gap, eliminates discrimination, and ends violence against disabled women. It stresses the significance of empowering disabled women for Arab societies to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by meeting their psychological and physical needs as one crucial dimension of sustainable development. Rehabilitation and empathizing with disabled women are crucial features of society’s growth and in achieving gender justice
Jordanian Women in Academia: Barriers and Motivators in Scientific Research and Promotion
Get PDFThe purpose of this study is to evaluate the research output and status of women academics in science fields in Jordan. The rationale is to identify trends as well as challenges to advise policy makers and university administrators on how to promote more involvement of women academics within the university. A survey of two sections was developed. The first section included 36 items that measure demographics and challenges in academic, research, administrative, and family contexts. The second section included questions regarding motivators and barriers to academic research. Participants were prompted to respond per the Likert’s Scale, where the responses were later categorized to a dichotomous variable (e.g., yes/no responses). The tools’ reliability and validity were tested in a pilot study conducted among 36 participants as well as from feedback from experts in the field. A description of the profile of women scientists in Jordan is presented. There was no significant difference between married and unmarried academics and their responses regarding opportunities and challenges faced in research. Additionally, there was no significant difference in responses between those who are married to academics and those married to nonacademics. Furthermore, the t-test showed that those who expressed dissatisfaction with promotion rules in their universities significantly expressed facing more challenges than those satisfied with promotion regulations. This is the first comprehensive study investigating women academics in Jordan in specific and in the Middle East region in general. Whereas previous research in the literature focused on comparing women academics’ progress and achievements with that of men academics, the novelty of this study lies in investigating sub-populations of women academics and identifying factors that affect academic achievement among women themselves. The article also offers suggestions for tailored intervention to improve the professional growth of women scientists in Jordan
Guide to the Maureen Connelly Irish Studies Collection
Get PDFMaureen Connelly’s eclectic collecting style of anything Irish is represented in this collection and others through letters, photographs, ephemera, books, pamphlets, art, audio recordings, etc. She was a prolific writer, writing weekly columns for newspapers such as the Boston Irish Echo where she was the founding editor in 1981. The Seamus Heaney Collection donated by Maureen is its own separate archival collection due to its size. The Conrad Aiken Collection and May Sarton Collection donated by Maureen are separate as well
The Rubidium Magneto-Optical Trap: Designing a Robust System For Measurement & Control
Get PDFThis thesis is a culmination of our efforts to construct a robust and flexible opto-mechanical system to fully deliver and control all of the parameters related to the required laser wavelength, polarization, power, beam size, and directionality for both the pump and the re-pump laser beams, delivered from two different lasers, necessary for neutral-atom laser trapping and cooling. This is an extension of the neutral Rubidium Magneto-Optical Trap (MOT) at BSU which afford a macroscopic scale collection of cold atoms where the effective governing laws of physics are quantum in nature rather than classical. My predecessors had done work on this system using a single laser with side-band capability and a custom vacuum chamber. My approach uses the commercially available ColdQuanta miniMOT which comes equipped with an ultra high vacuum chamber, Rubidium pump, and a Helmholtz coil all controllable through a single interface. Instead of a singular laser with side-bands we have opted to use a two laser system where we have used Toptica’s DL Pro, due to its very high stability, as our main pump laser to excite the Rubidium atoms and then Toptica’s DL-100 laser to provide a broader spectrum re-pump light to keep atoms from falling into the dark-state, a lower energy state that electrons occasionally fall into after emitting a photon. Our primary pump laser is fiber coupled to Toptica’s Doppler Free Saturated Absorption Spectroscopy COSY which is connected to the DLC Pro laser controller software that allows us to see the scan over a span of frequencies from the laser an find the Rubidium resonance peaks. Then both of our lasers are fiber coupled into a HighFinesse Wavemeter with picometer level resolution so that the wavelengths of the light from both lasers can be observed and altered as needed. This new optical and mechanical design offers a more robust light delivery system with a greater degree of control than previous iterations. Challenges for this research have been numerous from both a mechanical and optical perspective. One of our major concerns has been if the software controlled laser lock is stable enough to achieve a MOT. The Rubidium MOT program supplements both BSU’s Physics and the Photonics and Optical Engineering Program which offers undergraduates research experience and leads to new generations of advanced lab experiments that coincides and compliments new initiatives in both departments for Quantum Technology and Quantum Information Sciences by providing examples and directions using cold atom qubits for quantum computing and simulations. With the improvements made to past students’ efforts and a redesign to the optical pumping system we now find ourselves in a position where achieving a stable MOT is likely due to our complete control over the system’s power, direction, and polarization. We have made great efforts to understand the underlying physics including the quantum numbers associated with the angular momentum of our Rubidium atoms and the energy levels that correspond to them
“People See Us Homeless People As a Burden To Them” – Linda: Understanding Victimization and Offending Among Homeless Women
Get PDFAmong the homeless population in the United States and around the world, specific populations within the homeless experience unique challenges. As stated by Alatorre (2019), homeless women who have suffered trauma-related events are subject to revictimization when working to reintegrate back into society. The purpose of this chapter is to decipher the line between a victim and an offender in order to analyze how victimization and offending among women co-occur with homelessness. The study consists of a qualitative analysis of interviews, consisting of two YouTube videos from the channel White Under Belly and three interviews that were conducted via Zoom with graduates of Ozanam Manor, a mixed-gender homeless shelter located in Phoenix, Arizona. The life-course theory refers to influential life events, or transitions, that significantly affect an individual’s life trajectory and, ultimately, lead them to partake in criminal behavior. The feminization of poverty theory will be used to explain how women are particularly identified as vulnerable to poverty. The findings revealed that victimization was a significant factor that many of the women perceived led to their homelessness, and there is a difference among women who committed violent compared to nonviolent crimes (Roy et al., 2014). The goal of this study is to reveal the unequal representation of disparities that women continue to experience and ultimately challenge the cruel and misguided societal perceptions of those who experience homelessness
The Ban on Beauty Parlors in Taliban-led Afghanistan: Deconstructing Antipodal Ideologies
Get PDFRecently, the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan banned all beauty parlors, stating cultural reasons that the existence of such parlors violates the tenets of Islam. They also cited another reason for shutting down beauty parlors: that it puts an unnecessary financial burden on a groom’s family during marriages. The paper analyzes the policy decision by the Taliban government in light of the public-private divide, theories of Islamic feminism, and feminist understanding of the beauty industry. The author argues that sole application of either a feminist critique of the public-private divide or a feminist critique of beauty ideals fails to provide a holistic and a cogent solution to the problem faced by women in beauty industries all over the world, especially in Taliban-led Afghanistan. The paper also analyzes the ways in which Islamic feminism can better capture such inconsistencies and thereby provide an inclusive solution to the pertaining issues
#ArewaMeToo: Localized Resistance to the Abuse of Women in Northern Nigeria
Get PDFThis article explores the development of the #ArewaMeToo movement in Northern Nigeria. The study is contextualized within the theory of transnational feminism to argue that digital practices among non-Western women are more than merely a technological advancement and are significantly attuned to the socio-political climate of their societies. Therefore, as the #MeToo movement which began in the West goes global, women in Northern Nigerian have found a space to effect social change by resisting socio-cultural practices that challenge their social agency. Using the interview method, we articulate the uniqueness of #ArewaMeToo as a movement that is rooted in specific sociocultural challenges of Nigerian society. We also contend that ethnographic studies produce robust data to understand cultural specificity and enable solutions to address the problems raised by the movement