 | | | | On the word _nEka_ This unpublished 1979 article (it's so short I should call it a note) about the Bangla word _nEka_ raised questions that have later been taken up in women's studies, queer studies and related fields. I wonder if anybody familiar with the word _nEka_ has in fact contextualized the word with more recent tools in a way that supersedes this note. If there is such writing, please let me know. [The earlier Bangla article that this English piece refers to first appeared in _Krittibas_ in 1975 and was later included in my 1987 book _Kathaar kriyaakarmo_ ('The activities of words'), Kolkata: Dey's... |
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| Learning Analytics and Spelling Acquisition in German - a first prototype Data-driven learning in combination with emerging academic areas such as Learning Analytics (LA) has the potential to tailor students' education to their needs [1]. The aim of this article is to present a web-based training platform for primary school pupils who struggle with the acquisition of German orthography. Our objective is the improvement in their writing and spelling competences. The focus of this article is on the development of the platform and the details concerning the requirements and the design of the User Interface (UI). In combination with Learning Analytics, the platform... |
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| The Bioarchaeology of Socio-Sexual Lives: Queering Common Sense About Sex, Gender, and Sexuality This volume uses bioarchaeological remains to examine the complexities and diversity of past socio-sexual lives. This book does not begin with the presumption that certain aspects of sex, gender, and sexuality are universal and longstanding. Rather, the case studies within—extend from Neolithic Europe to pre-Columbian Mesoamerica to the nineteenth-century United States—highlight the importance of culturally and historically contextualizing socio-sexual beliefs and practices. |
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| Playing Dead: On Part-time Transvestism, Digital Semblance and Drag Feminism Abstract: This essay explores digital technology 's enabling so-called "gay men " to make contact (sexual and otherwise) with heterosexually identified males through cross-dressing. This phenomenon, which the digital exacerbates, exposes a loophole in heterosexual logic, where the object is revealed to be a semblance, not a finite and neatly gendered materiality. The essay deploys " trans, " then, not as a bounded identity category one might transition into like a final destination, but as a technology for pleasure to where one can transit back and forth through digital mediation. The rise... |
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| Love and social justice Birmingham 07_07_16.pptx The presentations addresses the question of the significance of love and social justice in education research and how such research might contribute to enabling people to live well in the world – when 'the world' is understood as including not only human beings but also the more-than-human. It focuses on practitioner research (inclusive of action research, self-study, reflective practice, action inquiry and more. It |
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| Staging Gender in Ramlila of Ramnagar Interrogation of gendered representations proves particularly salient in Ramlila, (literally " Rama's play ") which is a performance of the Ramayana epic in a series of scenes that include song, narration, recital and dialogue. This paper will look at gender in performance and gender as performance in the context of Ramlila. The most recent emphasis in feminist literary theory has been upon the concept of "performativity" to analyze the processes of the formation of gender identity. This essay will be informed by a series of issues raised by the current gender theories in understanding the... |
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| DOCÊNCIA E DECÊNCIA: UM ENSAIO SOBRE O AMBIENTE EDUCACIONAL COMO LABORATÓRIO CULTURAL Resumo: O presente trabalho propõe-se a levantar reflexões ensaísticas sobre o ambiente educacional, na perspectiva da discussão antropológica e da experiência cultural. Tais reflexões se apóiam em referenciais renomados da filosofia e da sociologia da educação, nomeadamente Michel Foucault, Zygmunt Bauman e, de modo especial, Michel de Montaigne. Procura-se problematizar o papel dialogal razoável e mesmo laboratorial da educação e da instituição escolar no que tange à dimensão cultural do ser humano. O enfoque se dá à crítica ao processo de aculturação que, por vezes, permeia a história da... |
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