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About Dina Rubina - with love...
No full textThe author of the article offers a review of a book Manovskii I. "Dina Rubina yesterday and today"
RISE OF CHINA: GROWING STRATEGIC COMPETITION BETWEEN THE US AND CHINA
No full textThe emergence of China as a great power is indubitably one of the greatest perplexities in the international arena since the cold war era. Similarly, it poses challenges to the strategic position of the US. The economic and technological height of China has now become a big question mark for the US hegemony. The US has adopted some essential policies and actions like the B3W initiative and Strategic Competition Act of 2021, which label China a strategic competitor in multiple areas, including economics, technology, and military security. Such actions and policies by the US generate growing strategic competition between Beijing and Washington. However, the Chinese political elite has reservations that the US wants to curb the expansion of Chinese influence. This paper, therefore, analyses how strategic competition between China and the US increases with the rise of China, particularly after China’s BRI, and how China poses a challenge or an opportunity for the US. This paper employs the Power-transition theory as an analytical framework to investigate the power transition debated among policymakers in the US and China.
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Ali, Irfan, and Rubina Ali. 2021. "Rise of China: Growing Strategic Competition between the US and China." Margalla Papers 25 (1): 103-114
Onomastic Code in the Works of Dina Rubina “Napoleon Convoy” and “The White Dove of Cordoba”
No full textThe semantic and plot-generating functions of the onomastic paradigm in the works of Dina Rubina “Napoleon wagon train” and “The White Dove of Cordoba” is examined in the article. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that the trilogy “Napoleon’s Wagon Train” has not previously been subjected to scientific analysis, nor has the artistic techniques of this trilogy been compared with those of other works by Dina Rubina. The novelty of the research is seen in the fact that, based on the material of the latest novels by Rubina, repeated motives of the reification and humanization of a name, giving it the status of an independent being, a character equal to the bearers of this name, are revealed. Attention is paid to the tendencies in the use of the onomastic code and its gravitation towards a certain type of characters, the life story of which is considered by the author in comparison with the characters who lose, hide and deliberately deform their names in an extensive chronotope, covering the period from the era of antiquity, the Renaissance and the Napoleonic wars to the present day. It is proved that the onomastic code, manifested in novels included in different trilogies, appears as a structural component cementing all the later novelistic works of Dina Rubina as the author’s supertext, arranged according to uniform semantic laws. The proper name in Rubina’s works is a meta-symbol, a sign of personality identification in its uniqueness and in the history of the clan and family
Hydraulic simulations to evaluate and predict design and operation of the Chashma Right Bank Canal
No full textIrrigation systems / Irrigation canals / Flow control / Velocity / Canal regulation techniques / Hydraulics / Simulation models / Design / Operations / Crop-based irrigation / Distributary canals / Water delivery / Policy / Protective irrigation / Water allocation / Water requirements / Sedimentation / Water distribution / Equity / Water conveyance / Pakistan / Chashma Right Bank Canal
User Education Programme in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester: A Case Study
No full textThe paper reports a case study which was conducted during the doctoral research by the author. It aimed to find out the relevance of user education programme in academic libraries to the teaching and learning process. Data for the study was collected through the questionnaires, interviews with the library user-education specialists, other library staff, students and faculty. The multidisciplinary approach was applied to investigate the library’s activities in providing user education to new students. It emerged from the findings that for students to become truly information literate, the best way is to integrate the user education programmes into the university’s core curriculum
Inayatullah, Rubina Saigol, and Pervez Tahir (eds). Social Sciences in Pakistan: A Profile. Islamabad: Council of Social Sciences, 2005. 512 pages. Hardbound. Rs 500.00.
No full textCommissioned by the Council of Social Sciences (COSS), this
volume evaluates the seventeen social sciences departments in the public
universities in Pakistan for a given set of parameters. The social
sciences departments or the topics covered in this volume and their
respective authors include: Teaching of International Relations in
Pakistani Universities (Rasul Bakhsh Rais); Development of the
Discipline of Political Science in Pakistan (Inayatullah); The
Development of Strategic Studies in Pakistan (Ayesha Siddiqa); The State
of Educational Discourse in Pakistan (Rubina Saigol); Development of
Philosophy as a Discipline (Mohammad Ashraf Adeel); The State of the
Discipline of Psychology in Public Universities in Pakistan: A Review
(Muhammad Pervez and Kamran Ahmad); Development of Economics as a
Discipline in Pakistan (Karamat Ali); Sociology in Pakistan: A Review of
Progress (Muhammad Hafeez); Anthropology in Pakistan: The State of [sic]
Discipline (Nadeem Omar Tarar); Development of the Discipline of History
in Pakistan (Mubarak Ali); The Discipline of Public Administration in
Pakistan (Zafar Iqbal Jadoon and Nasira Jabeen); Journalism and Mass
Communication (Mehdi Hasan); Area Studies in Pakistan: An Assessment
(Muhammad Islam); Pakistan Studies: A Subject of the State, and the
State of the Subject (Syed Jaffar Ahmed); The State of the Discipline of
Women’s Studies in Pakistan (Rubina Saigol); Peace and Conflict
Resolution Studies (Moonis Ahmar and Farhan H. Siddiqi); and Linguistics
in Pakistan: A Survey of the Contemporary Situation (Tariq
Rahman)
Django Reinhardt’s “Minor Swing” in the Novel “Petrushka Syndrome” By Dina Rubina: Jazz Adaptation of Prose
No full textThis article explores the features of the mutual influence of musical and verbal texts in the works of Dina Rubina, the features of their interaction, the system of key-notes in various works and its functions. The principle of the influence of musical form on the compositional structure of a verbal text is disclosed. From these positions, the novel “Parsley Syndrome” is analyzed and a hypothesis is put forward on the reasons for choosing Jango Reinhardt’s jazz composition “Minor Swing” as the leitmotif of the novel. Also, the intersection points of the two texts are indicated both in the symbolic, and in the ideological and artistic part. The figurative structure of the novel and the similarity of the fate of the central characters with the fate of the author of “Minor Swing” are considered. The development of one of the main themes of Dina Rubina is shown: the continuity of the fate of the family and the clan, the mystical connection of the past and the present, the fatal inevitability of the logic of fate belonging to one genus, the talent and fortitude of the heroes of the novel, which allows one to overcome the vicissitudes of fate. The theme “doll-man” is highlighted, relevant for the novel “Parsley Syndrome”, its variations and forms
Collaborative Sensemaking of Design-Enabled Urban Innovations:: The MappingDESIGNSCAPES Case
No full textWicked societal problems, such as environmental issues and climatechange, are complex, networked problems involving numerous intertwined issues,no optimal solutions, and a wide range of stakeholders. Cities are problem owners and living labs for finding solutions through design-enabled innovation initiatives. However, to reach collective impact, it is paramount that these initiatives can learn from one another and align efforts through collaborative sensemaking. In the MappingDESIGNSCAPES project, we piloted a participatory collaboration mapping approach for cross-case sensemaking across design-enabled urban innovation initiatives. We used the CommunitySensor methodology for participatory community network mapping together with the Kumu online network visualization tool to help representatives of three urban prototype cases share and collectively make sense of their design lessons learnt. In this second of two papers, we build on the participatory mapping foundation introduced in [1]. We describe the collaborative sensemaking approach used, then present the core collaboration patterns andcommon perspectives that form the sensemaking scaffolding. We show how wecollaboratively made sense by first taking individual perspectives, then makingcommon sense together. An extended discussion puts our findings in a larger context of how an approach like MappingDESIGNSCAPES can be used to move from collaborative sensemaking to collective impact in design-driven urban innovation.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Design Conceptualization and Communicatio
The Soviet East Cities in the Prose of Dina Rubina
No full textСтатья поступила в редакцию 09.03.2022 г.Статья посвящена анализу городского пространства в художественном произведении как важного элемента нарратива, благодаря которому становится возможно более полное понимание сюжета, внутреннего мира персонажей и даже самого автора. Советские города в современной русской литературе, находясь на границе между историей и ностальгией, фактом и вымыслом, также играют свою определенную роль в повествовании. В данной статье на примере прозы Д. Рубиной мы проследили, как автор создает ностальгический образ города в художественной литературе и какую роль писательница отводит городам советского востока в своем творчестве. Для этого мы провели сравнение двух городов в романах Д. Рубиной: Ташкента в романе «На солнечной стороне улицы» и Алма-Аты в трилогии «Русская канарейка». Выбор городов основан на их географической близости, принадлежности к одной культуре и одному временному периоду. Проводя сравнение городских пространств Ташкента и Алма-Аты, мы акцентировали наше внимание на природе городов, восточной специфике и использовании в романах городских топонимов. Помимо пространственных характеристик мы попытались проследить, как меняется мотив города в контексте повествования. Результаты проведенного исследования показали, что несмотря на то, что образы городов могут быть раскрыты по-разному, в творчестве писательницы города советского востока в первую очередь являются местами воспоминаний персонажей о детстве и юности.The article is devoted to the analysis of urban space in a work of fiction as an important element of the narrative, thanks to which a more complete understanding of the plot, the inner world of the characters and even the author himself becomes possible. Soviet cities in modern Russian literature, being on the border between history and nostalgia, fact and fiction, also play a certain role in the narrative. In this article, using the example of prose of Dina Rubina we tried to track down the way the author creates a nostalgic image of the city in fiction and what role the writer assigns to the cities of the Soviet East in her work. To do this, we will compare two cities in D. Rubina’s novels: Tashkent in the novel “On the sunny side of the street” and Almaty in the Russian Canary trilogy. The choice of cities is based on their geographical proximity, belonging to the same culture and the same time period. Comparing the urban spaces of Tashkent and Almaty, we focus our attention on the nature of cities, eastern specifics and the use of urban toponyms in novels. In addition to spatial characteristics, we will try to trace how the motif of the city changes in the context of the narrative. The results of the study showed that despite the fact that the images of cities can be revealed in a striking way, in the writer’s work, the cities of the Soviet East are primarily places of characters’ memories of childhood and youth
Życie zamknięte w komiksie. "Syndykat" Diny Rubiny
No full textA novel by Dina Rubina, entitled Syndicate is described as a narrative experiment, which
allows for various interpretations. The writer has updated a novel as a genre by combining it
with a comic. The author of the article identifi es elements of a comic present in Syndicate,
and shows how Rubina in her chosen form managed to unveil the absurd and ridiculous
elements of our lives and the world around us
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