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Short Story: Yaqoot
Get PDFYaqoot, the narrator, recalls the story of her life when in her youth she gave up her love for Rahim, a young mujahid because her father wanted to marry her off to the son of a communist friend of his. During the civil war with the Taliban, she lost her husband. When we meet her in the story, Yaqoot has a son who is engaged to be married. On a hot summer day, Yaqoot accidentally runs into Rahim who has survived the civil strife. Rahim, too, has lost his wife. Together they go visit a shrine. Yaqoot gradually comes to honor her once abandoned and now rekindled love after the long hiatus and decides to marry Rahim. This time, Yaqoot’s son stands in the way. Her son can’t believe that his middle-aged mother is considering remarrying—a taboo in Afghan culture
Voices and/of Places: The English translation of Helga Ruebsamen’s Het lied en de waarheid (The Song and The Truth) as a case study of identity and plurality in translation
No full textAfter Indonesia’s independence was officially recognised by the Netherlands in 1949, several former members of the colonial élite repatriated. Many among the Indies-born repatriatees’ generation used writing to come to terms with their own controversial, multifaceted identity. While they belonged to the colonial élite, they can be studied as writers geographically and temporally displaced as their colonial land of birth no longer exists. Their desire for belonging is arguably exemplified in the way their novels’ protagonists’ linguistic identity is depicted. While these authors write in Dutch, their characters are embedded in local cultures, languages, traditions, questioning fixed labels and dichotomies. Taking as example Helga Ruebsamen’s 1997 novel Het lied en de waarheid [The song and the truth], this article explores how linguistic identity is represented in Dutch literature of repatriation and how this is tackled in translation into English. This novel is chosen not only because it allows to explore plurality in literature and translation in the selected context, but also because it takes the issues of linguistic plurality in literature and translation a step further: the five-year-old Dutch protagonist leaves the tropical (colonial) environment with its enchanting nature behind and arrives with her family in the Netherlands in 1939 as the daughter of a Jewish doctor, unveiling a third identity layer beyond the Dutch-East Indian dichotomy. After positioning this novel within Dutch literature of repatriation by means of a close reading analysis, this article discusses why and how it can be studied as a heterolingual, diasporic (in this specific case, neither colonial, nor postcolonial) text. The translation strategies used to tackle representations of cultural and linguistic hybridity into English are then analysed by means of a comparative textual analysis. Looking for recurring trends, the results are finally briefly related to the findings of a doctoral project about the English and Italian translations of Dutch-East Indian novels by Hella S. Haasse, which suggest that shared tendencies to generalisation may risk distorting images of linguistic hybridity
Foregrounding Positive Research Culture
No full textA key theme emerging across the International Research Culture Conference 2023 (IRCC 2023) was the detrimental effect of excessive competition. Funders, institutions, and individual researchers from across the research landscape recognised that some actions intended to promote collaboration, and some measures of research culture, may contribute to an overly competitive research context that is detrimental to the research endeavour.
This article reviews key findings from the conference that could combat too much competition. We highlight work on learning across the research landscape, and continuing developments in measurement and evaluation of research culture that are inclusive and adaptable across contexts. We suggest that these are key elements of progressing positive research cultures and that these should be prioritised for discussion at future conferences
Cycling and the British: A leisurely ride through the National Cycle Archive
No full textThis paper is based on my presentation at the MRC’s 50th anniversary conference. Firstly, it gives an overview of my book, Cycling and the British: A Modern History, which was published in 2021, and was heavily based on the MRC’s National Cycle Archive. Secondly, the paper provides examples of some of the key records used in the book
The Modern Records Centre’s Chile Collections as a Space for Memory and Recognition
No full textExiles occupy a marginal status within the field of Transitional Justice. Chileans who fled the Pinochet dictatorship have had limited access to public and official platforms to share their experiences. The MRC´s efforts in gathering, digitizing and disseminating materials relating to Chilean exile demonstrate how non-state and international archives can provide alternative and meaningful pathways for acknowledgment and symbolic redress
Once a Nurse, Always a Nurse? Changes of identity in the pursuit of nurse academia
No full textStereotypes of what defines a nurse act to limit nursing identity and provide a barrier to both career progression into academia and nurse retention in clinical practice. In this critical reflection, I explore how opportunities in clinical practice allowed me to develop my own identity as a nurse academic whilst acknowledging that these opportunities are not available to all potential nurse academics. I question whether \u27a nurse will always be a nurse\u27 if we do not provide the opportunities, and the time, for nurses to explore the vast range of roles within the profession. Research is being conducted on a daily basis in clinical practice, however nurses need to be supported by their workplaces to gain the skills and knowledge on how to become productive scholars. Supporting nurses to take this step will level the gradient between nursing and academia, and open the door for the future of successful nurse academia
If You Could Just Go Ahead and Make Sure You Do That From Now On That Would Be Great: Editorial, Volume 12, Part 1
No full textIn this introductory editorial, the Chief Editor looks briefly at changes in the field of academic publishing, alongside speculating on future developments for the journal. Notably the editorial contains an overview of all articles appearing in this issue, along with news about forthcoming issues and author contribution opportunities too. Following a series of acknowledgements, the editorial closes with a guide to the various ways in which readers can engage with the journal outside of the published volumes on social media
Knowledge, Attitudes and Barriers of Breast Self-Examination Among Women in Nyio Ward, Arua City
No full textBreast self-examination (BSE) is an effective, inexpensive and simple screening technique for examining breasts monthly to detect breast cancer. Among women diagnosed with breast cancer in Uganda, 89 per cent of them present with stage III or IV, which has a poor prognosis. This study was conducted to assess knowledge, attitudes and barriers regarding BSE among women in Nyio ward, Arua City, Uganda.
A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among 354 women selected by cluster sampling and random walk method. Data was entered into Microsoft Excel, coded and analysed using the SPSS version 23. Knowledge of BSE among the participants was low. Less than half of the respondents (47.5 per cent) had ever heard about BSE as means of early detection of breast cancer and only 23.2 per cent knew how to perform BSE. The majority (95.8 per cent) had a positive attitude towards BSE practice, 85.7 per cent believed BSE is crucial in detecting breast cancer early, and most (83.3 per cent) agreed early detection increases the chances of long-term survival. The most common barrier towards BSE was lack of awareness.
A multidisciplinary approach, including the use of mass media, is required to create awareness about BSE and to reach a broader community
From La Boca to La Stocka
No full textIn this short reflection piece, we hear from Neil West, who recently co-organised a project between artists in La Boca in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Stockport, near Manchester in the UK. The piece brings together anecdotes and personal photographs as documentation of collective, cultural political practice
Introduction to Solidarity Politics: the (Re)activation of European-Latin American Solidarities
Get PDFOur proposal for this special issue was inspired by the breadth of commemorations we were witnessing in the lead-up to September 11th, 2023, the 50th anniversary of the military coup that has cast a shadow over Chileans until today. Seeking to avoid repeating the question of where, how, and between whom European-Latin American solidarity takes and has taken place from its inception, we intended this special issue to go beyond the question of chronological memory and historiography to rethink the cyclical and reiterative nature of these solidarities rooted in the Cold War. From the unique vantage point of living with the third generation of Chile’s exile diaspora, we wanted to revisit the current-day vernaculars and practices of European-Latin American relations through concepts of translocal and transgenerational solidarity. Similarly, at a time when older categories of internationalism and anti-imperialism have taken on entirely new meanings for protest movements and social justice activism, adapted definitions of the vocabulary surrounding human rights, solidarity, and democracy play an increasingly central role in activism narratives and need to be more thoroughly scrutinised