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Julia Hoczyk and Wojciech Klimczyk (eds.). 2022. Prze-pisać taneczny modernizm: sieci (Krakow: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego)
No full textThis is a review of Julia Hoczyk and Wojciech Klimczyk (eds.). 2022. Prze-pisać taneczny modernizm: sieci (Krakow: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego)
Critical Virtual Exchange to address teachers’ needs in times of conflict
No full textCritical world events, such as wars and pandemics, have always impacted the field of education. Across the globe, educational contexts have been confronted with challenges emerging from these events, thereby necessitating teachers to respond to the specific needs that arise in disrupted educational settings. Due to its intercultural nature, Virtual Exchange (VE) is a promising practice for contexts where new intercultural spaces are created in educational settings affected by disruption or conflict. In addition, its computer-mediated configuration allows participants from diverse geographic contexts to collaborate on shared goals synchronously or asynchronously. This practice report presents the outcomes of a “Critical Virtual Exchange” project, which brought together teachers from across Europe who were working with or preparing to work with Ukrainian students displaced by the war. By shedding light on the potential of VE to respond to the challenges faced by teachers during periods of educational disruption, this study contributes to leveraging VE as a practice to address critical pedagogical goals in crisis-affected contexts and establish virtual support communities
Who Gets to Tell the Story? Preaching Amid Extraction, Exploitation, and Resistance
No full textContested narratives around fossil fuel extraction and the exploitation of Earth for human purposes pose challenges for preachers seeking to bring God’s word to bear for all of Creation. This essay explores the author’s experiences with preaching, teaching, and researching homiletics in three stages of her ministry – protesting fracking in Pennsylvania, teaching seminary students about witness and testimony in the coal regions of eastern Kentucky, and studying the stories of preachers for a project entitled Compelling Preaching for a Climate-Changed World. The author reflects on what she has learned by asking four key questions: What is it like to be you in this place? Whose story do we tell? Who gets to tell the story? How will that story be told? These questions enable preachers to engage in deep listening to a variety of voices, including our other-than-human neighbors in God’s Creation, and to discern how we can proclaim the gospel of liberation for a suffering world
Menstruatie als verdediging. Hoe artsen, psychiaters en vrouwen menstruatie gebruikten in de rechtbank in de negentiende eeuw
No full textMenstruatie werd vaak genoemd in negentiende-eeuwse rechtszaken die draaien om verkrachting, kindermoord en brandstichting. Artsen en psychiaters spraken over menstruatie als getuigen-deskundigen, maar ook vrouwen zelf verklaarden hoe hun lichaam werkte. Het onderzoeken van menstruatie had verschillende functies en hield verband met kennis over zwangerschap, seksualiteit, trauma en ontoerekeningsvatbaarheid
Grounded discourse analysis: A hybrid methodology
No full textThis article introduces grounded discourse analysis (GDA) as a hybrid methodology for the investigation of language use and meaning-making in a range of social contexts. It demonstrates that grounded theory and discourse analysis can be fruitful methodological companions, with grounded theory offering strategies for research design and theory development that are rooted in social context, and discourse analysis providing an extensive toolkit for close analysis of the relationship between text, action and broader social structures. The article introduces three foundational principles for GDA projects: 1) inductive design, 2) socially situated theory-building, and 3) researcher reflexivity. Further, it sets out six flexible phases that guide the research from data construction to micro-level discourse analysis. In order to demonstrate how GDA can work in practice, the article draws on three empirical case studies from the author’s research in which grounded theory and discourse analysis are combined in pursuit of rich qualitative insights around the relationship between everyday parenting, gendered and familial structures, and social media practices. In each of these studies, a grounded discourse analytical approach produces rich, theory-driven analyses that are rooted in deep understanding of the research context and its related social phenomena, participants and practices
Self-compassion and emotional recovery in the relationship between neuroticism and subjective well-being
No full textStudies have consistently found the neuroticism personality trait to be related to lowered subjective well-being. Previous research has also found neuroticism to be related to lower self-compassion and slower recovery from emotionally stressful reactions. This study examines whether neuroticism and subjective well-being are negatively related, via the correlational sequence, from higher neuroticism to lower self-compassion, from lower self-compassion to slower emotional recovery, and from slower emotional recovery to lower subjective well-being. The present sample (N = 284) completed measures of these variables, and the responses were analyzed within a serial multiple regression model. While the analyses confirmed the hypothesis on the correlational sequence, the evidence for self-compassion as the sole intermediate variable (i.e., without considering emotional recovery) was stronger. The paper includes a discussion of whether a methodological reason underlies the present minor role of emotional recovery in the correlational sequence. A differentiated look at the data suggests that relatively low self-compassion and, potentially, slow emotional recovery are decisive factors for decreased life satisfaction and positive affect among those who are high in neuroticism. As a practical implication, existing self-compassion interventions may be a promising path for people who are high in neuroticism to improve their subjective well-being
Gender and ethnic identity differences in narcissistic personality traits
No full textNarcissistic traits, though often viewed negatively, can serve as protective mechanisms, shielding individuals from harmful self-attributions and enhancing performance in competitive environments. Consequently, different environmental contexts are likely to predict varying levels of narcissism. In mating contexts, for example, these traits may be adaptive, with gender differences expected due to differing reproductive fitness pressures on men and women. The present research investigated gender and ethnic identity differences in narcissistic traits. Across four studies conducted with participants from the United States, men consistently reported higher levels of extraverted and antagonistic narcissism, whereas women exhibited higher levels of neurotic narcissism. Black participants reported higher levels of extraverted and antagonistic narcissism compared to White participants, aligning with prior research that suggests narcissistic traits may act as protective responses to systemic discrimination. An unexpected finding emerged regarding communal narcissism, where Black participants consistently scored higher than their White counterparts, suggesting that marginalized groups may express narcissism through prosocial or communal behaviors. The studies provided evidence supporting the measurement invariance of narcissistic traits across gender and ethnic identity groups. This suggests that the tools and methods used to measure these traits function equivalently across these groups. The findings offer valuable insights into the connections between demographic factors and narcissistic traits, contributing to a more nuanced understanding of how narcissism manifests in different populations
From Epicureanism to Stoicism: Central European Literary Responses to History of the Twentieth Century and Exile (Sándor Márai, Joseph Roth and Stefan Zweig)
No full textThe article addresses Central European historical experiences of the twentieth century manifesting in the fates of Sándor Márai, Joseph Roth and Stefan Zweig. Entangled in the speeding wheel of the modern history, the three writers experienced excessive historical discontinuities (wars, revolutions, dictatorships) which they conceptualized in terms of Epicureanism and Stoicism. To a great extent mythicized Epicurean ‘lightness of being,’ carefree travelling, journalistic openness coexist with the Stoic inward diaristic safeguarding of the self from the historical burden in their texts. While in the Epicurean approach to life, individual is a master of his own fate realizing positive freedom, the centripetal Stoic worldview entails a search of negative freedom from the overwhelming historical fate and a withdrawal to inner (diaristic) self as the only anchor in volatile times. Moreover, the three writers’ historical experiences shaped their double displacement. Whereas its spatial dimension (exilic nomadism) made their self-identifications oscillate between homo politicus and homo poeticus, its temporal aspect – in the article’s foreground – implied the need to narratively inscribe one’s self within a meaningful order of time reconfigured in personal writing
Writing under the \u27Auto/biographical Demand\u27 in Deborah Feldman’s Unorthodox (2012) and Exodus (2015)
No full textThis article offers a reading of Deborah Feldman’s memoir sequel, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots (2012) and Exodus: A Memoir (2015), through the lens of what Leigh Gilmore calls \u27the auto/biographical demand\u27. It argues that Feldman writes under the \u27auto/biographical demand\u27 as the grandchild of Hungarian Holocaust survivors and redeploys the inherited story of gendered suffering during the Holocaust in order to reconfigure her own Jewish American identity. I employ Gilmore’s concept to reflect upon the writing of the self in Feldman’s memoir sequel in terms of narrative entanglement, postmemory, and third generation transmission of collective trauma. In addition, the article reflects on Feldman’s text as an echo chamber of the profoundly controversial Kastner affair during the Holocaust in Hungary and its transatlantic reverberations
Michael Jungert, Sebastian Schuol: Scheitern in den Wissenschaften
No full textRezension von Michael Jungert, Sebastian Schuol: Scheitern in den Wissenschaften. Brill: mentis, 2022