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A Cloak for Courage in the Anthropocene
No full textThis essay is a reflection on the process of creating a Cloak for Courage in the Anthropocene, from early ideas to the finished garment. We describe our collaborative practice and methodology as the composite eco-poet, kin’d & kin’d, challenged by the work of Donna Haraway to reassess our relationship with the many-more-than-human. We show how US poet Jorie Graham influenced our movement from a focus on hope to a commitment to courage at this time of eco-crisis, and how our concern with reciprocity, beauty and uncertainty as working principles led to the particular form that the Cloak took. Drawing on the lyric essay that we originally wrote about the process, ‘The evolution of a thought about courage in the Anthropocene’, we also illuminate the set of writing practices that would ‘consecrate’ 47 wild objects to make them into amulets for courage for the Cloak’s pockets. We discuss how being-with, thinking-with and listening to, the wild objects became crucial methods of inquiry and developing respect. We conclude that the whole experience of conceiving of and making the Cloak was an experiment with uncertainty, and that ultimately, we can only point towards what we might call courage in this era
Virtual exchange in Norwegian vocational education: Productive or problematic intercultural communication?
No full textGlobalisation and the rapid advancement of technological innovation call for increased attention to critical digital literacy in education. Simultaneously, there is a need to focus on intercultural communication to ensure inclusivity and tolerance for students in an interconnected world. This article presents findings from qualitative research on virtual exchange (VE) in Norwegian vocational education. Using semi structured interviews and participant observations, the research question that guided the study was: How do vocational training students describe their experiences of VE as engagement in intercultural communication? The findings show that the Norwegian participants describe increased intercultural curiosity and appreciation based on their experience with intercultural communication. However, these experiences are also compounded by the presence of cultural othering. It is suggested that critical digital literacy can help foster intercultural sensitivity and self-awareness of how symbolic power operates in VE, which can facilitate inclusive online intercultural communication
Beyond words: Strategies for translating realia through user-centred negotiation in technical communication
No full textIn recent decades, the convergence of technical and professional communication (TPC) with translation studies (TS) has underscored the necessity for collaboration across disciplinary borders. However, challenges remain, particularly in translating specialized texts deeply connected to local cultures. This paper investigates a virtual exchange (VE) project focused on translating multilingual menus, which pose unique challenges due to their embeddedness in local cultures. The study explores translators\u27 strategies in dealing with culture-specific items (CSIs) and their collaboration with TPC writers representing the target audience. The methodology section outlines the case study\u27s participants and dataset, while the results shed light on effective strategies and collaborative approaches in translating menus within a VE context. A key takeaway is that technical translation requires not only a deep understanding of the terminology and concepts of a specific field, but also a commitment to working with TPC writers and target audiences to transform source texts into usable and persuasive target texts – an approach that VE environments can uniquely support through authentic, cross-cultural collaboration
Creating a Social Fabric in Exile, the Nicaraguan Fair, and the Nicaraguan Women’s Network: An Essay-Testimonio
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"Learning From Lilies": Time, Covenant, and Revelation in the Eco-Theology of an Argentine Methodist Sermon
No full textThis article will engage a transcribed sermon on climate justice originally preached by a Methodist pastor working in the community of Rosario, Argentina. Translated from the original Spanish from a local congregation’s Sunday morning worship recording, the sermon gives voice to a holistic call to discipleship in the face of systemic environmental exploitation. Delivered in an Argentine context of increasing religious fundamentalism and authoritarian political tendencies, the sermon gives counter witness to louder, more conservative Latin American religious voices that do not find climate justice a significant or appropriate theme for biblically oriented sermons. The sermon also disrupts shallow definitions of eco-justice increasingly critiqued in more progressive, North American communities that claim environmental advocacy as their goal
Mario Telò. 2024. Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler (London: Bloomsbury Academic)
No full textThis is a review of Mario Telò. 2024. Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler (London: Bloomsbury Academic)
Narcissistic personality features and warmongering: The mediating of role of dangerous and competitive social worldviews
No full textThe associations between narcissistic personality features and warmongering were examined, as well as whether these associations were mediated by the dangerous and competitive social world views believed to accompany these behaviors. Participants were 664 students from Iranian universities, who provided self-ratings on a short form of the Five-Factor Narcissism Inventory, on a warmongering measure (capturing several categories), and on the Social World-view Scale-Revised. The results showed that there is a relationship between narcissism and warmongering and its categories. Also, the results showed that the aspects of narcissism (antagonistic narcissism, extraverted narcissism, and neurotic narcissism) had strong indirect relationships with warmongering and its categories, through the dangerous and competitive social worldviews. An important point about the obtained results was that the role of the competitive social worldview in this relationship was greater than the dangerous social worldview. The literature of this research and its results can be used to deepen our understanding of warmongering and factors related to it. Using its results, we may get a better understanding of the role of personality factors and of worldviews in warmongering and put it to use to help prevent such unfortunate events