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Queering the South Asian Diaspora: A Look Into Finding Love and Community
No full textIn bell hook's "all about love," found families are described as a form of kinship that compliments the nuclear family. The purpose of this research is to apply hooks' text to the relationships that queer South Asians in the diaspora have outside of their nuclear family. While there have been previous discussions of queerness amongst South Asians and diasporic identities, the two of them have not been discussed in conjunction to display the lived experiences of this marginalized group. I interviewed three queer South Asian Americans to analyze the various forms of community present in their lives-specifically, their forms of friendship and their relationships with their families-to present it in an oral history format within the paper. Many of them feel a need to find an additional sense of support due to their multiple identities and are not able to be fully themselves within their South Asian community, but they feel a cultural obligation. In predominantly white queer spaces, there is a lack of cultural awareness, leading queer South Asians to find a found family within other queer people of color, or largely marginalized spaces with experiences similar to them. bell hooks extensively discusses various forms of love one experiences and through this research I seek to apply this concept to this marginalized group.Modern and Classical Languages, Department ofHonors Colleg
The Great Indian Divide of 1947: Reconstructing and recovering South Asian histories through literature, history, and personal narratives
No full textThe Great Indian Divide of 1947, sometimes referred to as the Partition, occurred when the British forces retreated from South Asia and left over fourteen million people uprooted from their ancestral homes (Bhalla, 2022). During the Partition, at least three million people died from hunger, violence, suicide and disease. (Bhalla, 2022). The purpose of the Partition once the British relinquished their control of India and giving the subcontinent their independence, was to create a country for Muslims called Pakistan. This decision was emphasized by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who believed that the relation ties between Hindus and Muslims were far from being repaired due to the tension created by colonization and fought for a two-nation division where Muslims would have a homeland for themselves (Roy, 2021). The decision to divide India caused families to be separated, brought psychological trauma on witnesses, and identity loss, some of the many human costs that the partition brought. For a while, the Great Indian Divide of 1947 has been studied as a political event rather than a humanitarian catastrophe. The aim of this thesis is to intervene the heavy focus placed upon politics in regard to Partition studies and expand on how Partition literature written by first and second generation authors can be used as a field of study to better understand the human experience and aspects of the Partition that the lenses of politics and history are unable to cover within their scope of range. Furthermore, explore the impacts Partition literature has on South Asian American communities. This is done through a literature review of Partition literature, connecting the historical phenomenon's present in Partition literature, and an oral history with Saadia Faruqi, author of The Partition Project.Honors CollegeEnglish, Department o
Everyday Political Whiteness and Diversity University
No full textThere is a paradoxical situation in higher education today: the discourse around the concept of “diversity” has become widely institutionalized, but advocates of equality still struggle to operate within a broader and deeper racialized political and everyday cultural context that is hostile to their success. A besieged current climate for the hopes and projects of pluralism, social equality, peace, and justice imbues the higher education concept and discourse of diversity with an enhanced aura of progressive institutional value and perhaps even a residual locus of political hope.
The vast majority of academic workers would not, in the abstract principle, object to the general good of diversity and educational pluralism, even as ideological and political currents may differ. Daily encounters with students and face-to-face relationships, in teaching, mentoring, or advising situations, provide many regular opportunities to engage with the lived experiences of diversity but often within an antagonistic context, where hierarchical institutions routinely place inclusion and equality as subordinate priorities in relation to other values, goals, and projects.
As Sara Ahmed notes, “Diversity work is hard because it can involve doing within institutions what would not otherwise be done by them. . . . The social desire to institutionalize diversity does not mean the institution is opened up; indeed, the wall might become all the more apparent, all the more a sign of immobility, the more the institution presents itself as being opened up.” Diversity in higher education is therefore a moral and polemical concept that points to a tacit awareness and often grudging collective recognition, despite the prevailing political mood, that the university as it is currently configured is a place of injustice and inequality and in need of social change
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Groundings in anti-racism : racist violence and the 'War-on-Terror' in East London
Get PDFtextThe interlocked social struggles waged by overlapping and diverse Britons of color for racial and social equality and everyday survival is the dynamic corollary of the contradictions engendered by the ruling relations of racial differentiation and racism in Britain. Grassroots struggles against routine racist violence and state violence, conceptualized as politically interlinked, are the critical sites that contribute to the recursive racial domination experienced by Britons of color in contemporary Britain, and forms the key ethnographic research focus of this study. Prior studies have already critiqued the dominant state framework of viewing racist violence as random, de-racialized and nonpolitical events – as individual incidents, neighborhood disputes, inter-personal conflict, and robberies gone wrong. These studies have alternately identified the social dehumanizing functions of racist violence, the possessive local white territorialism that they materially support and their relationship with macro-level socio-economic crises and changing racial exclusion ideologies of the liberal democratic nation.
What I add to these studies is the argument that the racial subordination and ruling relations inherent in the social processes of racist violence and, by formal extension, state violence are not only derivative of broader ideological forces or local social relations but are in fact constitutive of white racial state formation in Britain’s postcolonial era. I argue that the processes of racist violence and state violence are productive of the domination and hierarchy that is secured for whites, through unevenly empowered and routinized contestations within the re-configurations of white racial state formation and an emergent neoliberal-multicultural national security state. It is within this framework of analysis that the politics of black mobilization by Britons of color and their allies, in the context of contemporary multiculturalism’s contradictions, and against the many-sided form of racial subordination is made legible -- not as an anachronism -- but as socially meaningful, interlocked and politically urgent.Anthropolog
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Review of Political blackness in multiracial Britain by Ambikaipaker, Mohan
Get PDFThe nature, scope, and worth of ideas of ‘political blackness’ in Britain have long been contested, with recent contributions from writers such as Claire Alexander and Kehinde Andrews furthering debates around the solidarity and erasures produced by such groupings. In this significant and engaging book, Mohan Ambikaipaker explores questions of identity and unity through the anti-racist activities of an important community-based organization in Britain that led campaigns against racial and state violence inspired by a unifying ‘blackness’ deliberately ‘coordinated to involve multiple communities in solidarity with each other’ (p. 5).
The organization at the centre of this work is the Newham Monitoring Project (NMP), an anti-racist grassroots organization based in an East..
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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