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Money Matters: Encounter and Economic Disparity in Irish-language Travel Narratives
Get PDFTravel has always been an extremely important theme in Irish-language literature, but often this travel was motivated by financial hardship and, up until the late twentieth century, Irish-language accounts of travel largely documented the emigrant experience. In more recent years, however, Irish-language literature has witnessed a transition from emigration literature to travel literature, with Irish-language writers now recounting journeys undertaken for leisure purposes to destinations all over the world. The evolution of travel literature in the Irish language is, therefore, rather different to the evolution of the genre in major world languages, such as English or French, and the growth of Irish-language travel literature in recent years has highlighted that Irish-language travel writers have a unique background and perspective. Writing in a minoritized language, Irish-language travel writers themselves occupy a somewhat marginal position and, coming from a country that has first-hand experience of colonization, they often criticize Western hegemony and express solidarity with peoples who have lost elements of their language or culture as a result of their encounter with dominant world powers. On the other hand, they are also relatively wealthy travellers from an economically developed country in Western Europe. This unstable positioning can result in encounters that are fraught with ethical dilemmas for Irish-language writers when they travel. By looking at the travel writing of four Irish-language writers [...] this article explores the encounters between Irish-language travel writers and foreign peoples and cultures. It investigates the attempts made by these writers to distance themselves from cultural, political and economic hegemony of Western powers but also highlights the often ambivalent positioning of Irish-language travel writers and demonstrates the barriers to encounter and the asymmetrical power structures that economic inequality can create
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No full textconference proceedings of the Open Art Histories Pedagogy Institute 2022
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No full textOpen Art Histories workshop: “Land is Our First Teacher”: Teaching Indigenous Art Studio & Art History Onlin
Stop Shackling Patients: A Petition to Humanize the Care of Incarcerated Patients at Boston Medical Center
Get PDFThis scholarly work, written by Neil Singh Bedi, Nisha Mathur, and Judy D. Wang, under the mentorship of Professors Sondra Crosby and George Annas, and with the support of members of the Stop Shackling Patients Coalition, compiles a series of arguments against the routine shackling of patients who are incarcerated while they receive healthcare in American hospitals. As medical students, NSB, NM, and JDW had a unique opportunity to collaborate with Boston Medical Center, their primary teaching institution, the largest trauma center in New England, and a nationally renowned health system that is dedicated towards achieving health equity, in changing their policy regarding care for patients who are incarcerated. Written and launched on the 5th of February, 2022, this petition launched a national discussion to understand and change one of the many concerns about how this patient population is treated: namely, the use of shackles as restraints in healthcare setting. In response to the robust discussion incited by this campaign, the Stop Shackling Patients Coalition (SSP) was founded. SSP is a task force and learning collaborative of health professionals, human rights advocates, and policymakers driven to raise the quality of care provided to incarcerated individuals by bringing an end to universal shackling. As of February 2023, Boston Medical Center amended its existing policy for the care of patients who are incarcerated, in response to this petition, and in collaboration with the Directors of SSP. Working directly with executive leadership, clinical leaders, the Office of the General Counsel, and public safety, authors NSB, NM, and JDW helped to develop and implement a revised policy that enables healthcare providers to not only assess whether patients who are incarcerated meet special circumstances (e.g. quadriplegia, sedation, or palliative care), but also to advocate for shackle removal
Review: The Sassoons
Get PDFBook review of The Sassoons by Esther da Costa Meyer and Claudia J. Nahson. Yale University Press, May 2023. ISBN 978-0-300-26430-2 (h/c), $60.00. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300264302/the-sassoons/. Reviewed July 2023 by Jordan Gorzalski, Research & Instruction Librarian, SCAD, [email protected]
McDougall's Group Mind - the "Unreasoning Impulsiveness" of groups are Very Relevant ."Poll: Black Americans fear more racist attacks after Buffalo shooting” the Washington Post (published 6-9-22) - w/ comparison to Durkheim, Geertz, + Bargh's recent res
No full textAs the authors of the article "Beyond the Group Mind: A Quantitative Review of the Interindividual–Intergroup Discontinuity Effect" which was published in Psychological Bulletin, observed, It is estimated that just in the final decade of the twentieth century, the deadly wars of places like Rwanda, Bosnia, and Ethiopia claimed the lives of 30 million people and made refugees of another 45 million (McGuire, 1998). Still, even though human relations may be as “stubbornly set” as ever, this meta-analysis underlines that great strides have been made toward understanding why intergroup relations are often more antagonistic and competitive than interindividual relations."
William McDougall (1871– 1938) was a psychologist who was influential in the development of the theory of instinct and of social psychology. McDougall, who predated Carl Jung, advocated the concept of a ‘Group or Collective Mind. McDougall stated: “We must recognize……the existence in a certain sense of over-individual or collective minds. We may fairly define mind as an organized system of mental or purposive forces, and in the sense so defined, every organized human society may properly be said to possess a collective mind…. which yet is not compared within the mind of any Individual. (1921, p.9 – p. 899 Social Psychology Handbook of Principles, edited by Higgins and Kruglanski)
McDougall also observed: “Participation in group life degrades the individual, assimilating his mental processes to those of the crowd, whose brutality, inconstancy, and unreasoning impulsiveness have been the theme of many writers; yet only by participation in groups life does man become fully man, only does he rise above the savage. (1921, p.20) (Soc Psych Handbook, p.899
The Politics of Feeling: Reading Emotion in Philip K. Dick
Get PDFThis essay argues that Dick is as much a chronicler of human feelings as he is a prophet of futuristic strangeness. Dick writes in an emotionally heightened way, explores the nature of human feeling, and uses the portrayal of feeling as a way of engaging with his readers, setting out a philosophical and moral agenda in a singularly intense and driven way. Focusing closely on four scenes from three novels, the essay shows how Dick’s interest in emotion and emotional response offers a powerful social and political critique of his society and its persistent tendency to foster human alienation. The essay offers a broadly humanistic reading, shaped in the agendas set by Dick’s biographers, and inflected by cultural materialist and feminist thinking. It is designed to be useful to the general as well as the scholarly reader
اليمن: الجهاز السري للإمبراطورية الأمريكية
No full textيدرس البحث أهمية الموقع الحيوي لليمن الذي يتحكم في أهم الممرات الاستراتيجية للمياه؛ حيث إن من بين أهداف واشنطن هي عسكرة الممرات الاستراتيجية المائية التي تربط جنوب آسيا والشرق الأقصى مرورا بقناة السويس والبحر الأحمر وخليج عدن.
تتكون محاور البحث في شقه الأول من العناصر التالية: مقدمة، اليمن، المملكة العربية السعودية، ومصر، وفن الإمبراطورية، عملية الأرض المحروقة، الإمبراطورية الأمريكية في خليج عدن وإفريقيا، مشروع القرن الأمريكي الجديد "أفريكوم"، القاعدة في اليمن، الحركة الانفصالية الجنوبية، الانتحاري الذي استخدم الملابس الداخلية المفخخة، الامبريالية الأمريكية في اليمن، الضغوط الأمريكية من أجل شن حرب بالوكالة مع إيران.
تناول الكاتب في الجزء الأول من البحث ارتباط التاريخ اليمني ارتباط وثيقا بتاريخ السياسة القومية العربية في الشرق الأوسط كما تناول موقع اليمن الاستراتيجي حيث يعد أمرا مهما وجوهريا في مفهوم أهمية اليمن للقوى الامبريالية، وتطرق أيضا الى تاريخ الحضارة اليمنية والممالك اليمنية القديمة منذ آلاف السنين مثل ممالك معين وسبأ وحمير، كما تحدث عن تاريخ اليمن في الإسلام حيث ساهمت إسهاما كبيرا في الفتوحات الإسلامية، كما تحدث الكاتب عن تاريخ اليمن الحديث منذ الوجود العثماني والبريطاني إلى أن توحد الشطرين الشمالي والجنوبي في صيف مايو من عام 1990 وعرج على الحرب التي نشبت بين الطرفين الشمالي والجنوبي وسيطرة القوات الشمالية على جنوب البلاد؛ كما تحدث بشكل موجز عن تاريخ الحكم في مصر والسعودية وعلاقتهم باليمن.
وتحدث الكاتب عن التهديدات التي تواجه اليمن في الشمال والجنوب وتهديد القاعدة حيث شن الجيش اليمني هجوما عسكريا على المتمردين الحوثيين في الشمال.
بالنسبة للجزء الثاني فيشمل المحاور التالية: أمريكا تخوض حربا على اليمن، تطهير حركة التحرر، أصدقاء اليمن، الامبريالية، والديمقراطية، والمنظمات غير الحكومية كمبشرين جدد، الحرب والإمبراطورية وإدارة الإدراك: دعاية من أجل انفصام ثقافي
Voices on Trial in Al-Maqāmāt Al-Aswāniyyah
Get PDFAl-Maqāmāt Al-Aswāniyyah (1970) are a collection of modern maqāmāt featuring a cast of characters from Cairo’s literary scene in the late 1960s. Written by the Egyptian lawyer and author ʻAbbās al-Aswānī (1926-1978), they were a casual and contemporary iteration of the genre, depicting everything from nightlife to Nasserism. They were so modern, in fact, that they were even adapted as a radio serial for Ṣawt Al-ʿArab. But despite these maqāmāt’s stylistic distance from their belletrist predecessors, and without recourse to a stereotypical use of the Egyptian dialect, al-Aswānī performs a satisfying linguistic satire worthy of the genre. Pushing back against common folk-linguistic understandings of the carnivalesque, this article looks to new work in linguistics and narratology as a way to explain how al-Aswānī’s casual, radio-friendly Maqāmāt still honor the genre’s tradition of performing multi-tiered parody, social satire, and metaliterary irony
What is Real?
Get PDFTwo of the most fundamental distinctions in metaphysics are (1) that between reality (or things in themselves) and appearance, the R/A distinction, and (2) that between entities that are fundamental (or real, etcetera) and entities that are ontologically or existentially dependent, the F/D distinction. While these appear to be two very different distinctions, in Buddhist metaphysics they are combined, raising questions about how they are related. In this paper I argue that plausible versions of the R/A distinction are essentially a special kind of F/D distinction, and conversely, that many F/D distinctions imply an R/A distinction. Nevertheless, while this does suggest that the F/D distinction is more basic than the R/A distinction, it does not favor a particular understanding of the F/D distinction. There are many kinds of existential or ontological dependence that cannot be meaningfully combined into a single notion, and reality does not force us to accept any specific kind of dependence as more fundamental. Consequently, what we consider to be ‘real’, ‘fundamental’, or ‘really existing’ is not entirely given by reality, but partially up to us