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Differences in identity in philosophy and religion: a cross-cultural approach
No full textThis book explores the constitutive role alterity plays in identity formation in Western and Eastern traditions. It examines the significance of difference in conceptions of identity across major philosophical and religious traditions in a global and comparative context, considering Ancient Greek and Egyptian, Chinese, Islamic, European and Japanese philosophies.
In addition, the book opens up discussion of less dominant trends in philosophical thinking, particularly the spaces between self-same existence and otherness in the histories of philosophical and religious thought. Chapters critique both essentialist and postmodern understandings of self-constitution by questioning the ordinary narrative of identity construction across Western and non-Western traditions. The book also explores the construction of selfhood from a wide range of perspectives, drawing upon individual philosophers (including Plotinus, Descartes, Geulincx, Hume, de Beauvoir and Ueda) as well as religious and philosophical movements, including Confucian philosophy, Zen Buddhism, Protestantism and Post-Phenomenology
Words Made of Atoms
No full textThis solo exhibition by British artist duo John Wood & Paul Harrison is an exploration of language and its manifold interpretations, including over 40 new and recent text-based works across the media of video, painting, drawing, audio, print and installation. Running concurrently with the gallery show, a series of external artworks by the artists will be installed in the nearby village of Zuoz.
Playing with words and their meaning, the exhibition will feature a series of recent drawings and new paintings of words, about words, such as This Is A Painting In A Room (2020). The show will feature Demo Tape (2020), a new video work in which two men perform a strange demonstration using a series of placards; a silent film about saying something. 'Words Made of Atoms' will also feature John Wood & Paul Harrison's first vinyl record, This is a Circle (2020), featuring spoken word lyrics by Lloyd Cole. Additionally, a series of twelve works will be installed outside the gallery, in the nearby village of Zuoz. These text-based works will continue the artists' investigation into language, appearing as a series of signs that direct nowhere, advertise nothing and generally provide very little information
Performative problems
Get PDFThis article investigates the ‘performative’ and how this concept is used in drawing today, particularly in using writing, performance and choreography to address relations between self and other as a gender. The investigation starts with the question ‘Who is it that draws and also writes?’ From this, a notion of the performative is investigated further in terms of how gender identities are claimed to be produced (Butler). This deals with deeper questions about who and what kind of subject engages in the drawing, writing and production of gender. The aim is to investigate an underlying problem that deals with where this gendered subject sits within global-market contexts of art and culture, where value is placed on doing, subjectivity and bodily action… when in fact these same relations produce pseudo-activity, alienation and abstraction; as Kunst (2015) asks, what does ‘performative’ mean today when art and capitalism are so closely related? The article concludes with comments about the role of the body in contradictory spaces, where relations between artists and spectators deal with a notion of ‘withdrawing’ and ‘doing less’
Irish ex-prisoner reflections on their psychological wellbeing whilst in prison in England and Wales
Get PDFOver the past 25 years the prison population of England and Wales has doubled and this has resulted in a significant proportion of the prisoner population suffering from mental ill-health. This paper considers the position of an under-researched group within the prison population in England and Wales, that of the Irish prisoner population. 37 semi-structured interviews were undertaken with recently released (within 2 years) Irish prisoners in England and Wales who were asked to reflect on their experiences of incarceration. It considers how themes of depression, paranoia and fear, and loneliness and isolation, all of which were identified as major factors within their experience of imprisonment in England and Wales, relate to the overall experience of incarceration
Pathways to Resilience [webpage]
No full text'Pathways to Resilience' adopts interdisciplinary approaches to hazard and disaster knowledge, seeking to empower lasting impact to bolster disaster resilience in India's Kullu District
I Want to Breathe Sweet Air
No full text“I Want to Breathe Sweet Air,” a film poem in three parts with acclaimed writer Lucy English, is a stunning and terribly beautiful visual indictment of careless land development and the impact of climate change on the natural environment, incorporating footage shot specifically for this project as well as footage from the vast library accumulated by Outlier Moving Pictures during six years of documenting environmental destruction
The impact of tax administration on tax compliance levels in Fako Division of the southwest region of Cameroon
Get PDFTax noncompliance is one of the biggest challenges faced by tax administrators
when collecting tax revenues. Despite a series of punitive and coercive measures
put in place by most governments including Cameroon, the phenomenon persists
with billions of dollars lost every fiscal year. It is on this premise that this study
examines the impact of tax education, tax policies and tax audit on the level of tax
compliance in Fako Division of the Southwest Region of Cameroon. The research
adopted a conclusive case study design supported by the philosophical
underpinnings of positivism epistemology and objectivism ontology. Multistage
sampling technique was used to source data from a sample of 307 participants
using semi-structured questionnaires measured using the five-point Likert scales.
Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to reduce the
dimension of the data. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used to test
hypotheses. Results from the study revealed that there is significant statistical
evidence to suggest that the existing tax policies in Fako Division has positive
impact on the level of tax compliance with [µ = 0.00 < 0.05; β = 51%; α = 0.05].
Also, the study revealed that tax education has a negative statistical significant
effect on tax compliance with [µ = 0.00 < 0.05; β = -18.5%; α = 0.05]. This implies
that the more taxpayers are knowledgeable about the tax system, the more they
are likely to fraud and default tax payments. It should be noted that the latent
construct tax audit was rejected in the data cleaning process. This research,
therefore, recommends that the government should improve on the tax policies
and make it friendly and acceptable to a majority of taxpayers and that tax
administrators should enforce civic education on the importance to respect tax
laws by justifying the significance of taxes revenue as a source of funding for
community development
Hip‐hop studies
No full textHip-hop studies is a field of inquiry that examines the culture of hip-hop from a broad range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. This entry provides an introduction to some of its key concerns related to the social origins of the culture, its aesthetics, racial politics, relationship to urban space, its creative and DIY use of electronic and digital technology, and its globalization. It assesses critiques of hip-hop's commercialization and considers whether the centrality of cultural sampling in its bricolage aesthetic acts as a force of renewal and resistance