Knowledge Commons | Zachary Smith | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/ztsmith/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Zachary Smith is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:34:50 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 f14d7ddd6420de2dfc2663f89f9a66f5 Matthew Kidd started the topic Participate in a survey on generative AI and archival research practices in the forum Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/religious-studies/forum/topic/participate-in-a-survey-on-generative-ai-and-archival-research-practices-5/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:17:45 -0500 Dear all,

We would like to invite you to take part in an anonymous online survey exploring how the growing use of generative AI tools (including ChatGPT) is reshaping user practices and expectations in relation to searching, discovering, and interpreting digitised and born-digital archival records.

The survey forms part of a research project…[Read more]

]]> 24fdbbde7050e5bfe82b75a714f2df3f Matthew Kidd started the topic Participate in a survey on generative AI and archival research practices in the forum Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/cultural-studies/forum/topic/participate-in-a-survey-on-generative-ai-and-archival-research-practices-2/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:15:11 -0500 Dear all,

We would like to invite you to take part in an anonymous online survey exploring how the growing use of generative AI tools (including ChatGPT) is reshaping user practices and expectations in relation to searching, discovering, and interpreting digitised and born-digital archival records.

The survey forms part of a research project…[Read more]

]]> 65cb1ad1cd5d4f8cf3b379511141841e Osama S Qatrani posted an update in the group Religious Studies: I’ve recently written a response to Frank Zindler’s ess […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1926129/ Tue, 02 Sep 2025 22:10:03 -0400 I’ve recently written a response to Frank Zindler’s essay “An Islamic Tale of Cartoons, Cartoonacy, and Cartoonatics” (2006).
The paper critiques his methodological reductionism and orientalist framings, while emphasizing that censorship and propaganda are universal, not limited to Islam. It also calls for resisting Islamophobic narratives disguis…[Read more]

]]> 0 fb5121409a94c786efb5f6263fa29330 Alexis karpouzos created the doc Friedrich Hölderlin : The wisdom of Poetry - Alexis karpouzos in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1911764/ Sun, 16 Feb 2025 12:41:02 -0500 a7b28c1b0645090d367c2e00f08bd871 Ansgar Allen deposited Homo Catastrophicus: The Revolt Against Civilisation in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902477/ Thu, 24 Oct 2024 03:00:05 -0400 In Homo Catastrophicus Louis Armand explores the agonism of an emergent Algorithmic State Apparatus. Its genealogy traverses the constellation of aesthetic & political avant-gardes of the long 20th century & the terminal shock of posthumanism. Technology has always posed a challenge to notions of human subjectivity. Yet this challenge cannot be…[Read more]

]]> 0 17f848c8029ff3e1609c0419734a5741 Valeria Graziano deposited Training for Exploitation?: Politicising Employability and Reclaiming Education in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902278/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 03:00:29 -0400 Foreword by Silvia Federici. 'Training for Exploitation' provides a pedagogical framework to deconstruct dominant narratives around work, employability and careers, and explores alternative ways of engaging with work and the economy. Training for Exploitation? includes tools for critically examining the relationship between education, work and…[Read more]

]]> 0 c70891c468fd2448aef87fb1aead9a83 Valeria Graziano deposited Refractions, borderlines and unbureaucratic politics in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902277/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 03:00:13 -0400 Valeria Graziano in conversation with Tihana Pupovać

]]> 0 9269454af2ec80fd797429a1d9517390 Valeria Graziano deposited The Rabble’s Lifecraft: Institutional Tinkering and Popular Illegalisms in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902089/ Sat, 19 Oct 2024 03:00:50 -0400 Article published in Croatian translation as ‘Životna Vještina Raje: Institucionalno Krparenje I Pučki Ilegalizmi’, Kritika, 5(1), 125-146.

Figure it Out (FIO) is an artistic and research project engaging practices and phenomena of coping, tinkering, making-do and circumventing exclusions that are developed by marginalized, underserved, discri…[Read more]

]]> 0 25b1d2f448d349ad998899fc46038c90 Valeria Graziano deposited We in the plural. Performance gestures of antifascism in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902082/ Sat, 19 Oct 2024 03:00:01 -0400 We in the plural. Performance gestures of antifascism

]]> 0 2f6b77585a057f0d9dcec58180d32a54 Derek Johnston deposited Black Sails: Historicising the Intersecting Traumas of Imperialist Capitalism through the Gothic Mode in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901426/ Sat, 12 Oct 2024 03:01:41 -0400 Black Sails (2014-2017) presented a prequel to Treasure Island mixed with real historical characters and events in a story of resistance against imperialist capitalism. The pirates were cast as rebels against a dominant system in which wealth is directed to those in charge, while those who work for it are left with little. The series dramatises…[Read more]

]]> 0 3fa198ca863a7f488eace7440ab80d36 Pragya Ranjan deposited Morality in Premchand’s Kafan: For Dalits or Anti-Dalit ? in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901227/ Thu, 10 Oct 2024 03:00:29 -0400 It is an article on Premchand's most controversial short story, Kafan. This article attempts to describe how the story gives an alternative voice to the downtrodden and how the characters define a morality of their own, which is outside the purview of the Brahmanical framework. In an extremely hierarchical religious structure as in Hinduism, this…[Read more]

]]> 0 7faec064c61184f67fa3656dcc3a4bd1 Albert R Haig deposited The Word in the Soul and its Counterparts: World, Body, Mind, and Soul in Plotinus in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901225/ Thu, 10 Oct 2024 03:00:15 -0400 This book chapter represents a comprehensive discussion of the theory of cognition found in the ancient Greek philosopher Plotinus. Plotinus was the founder and most significant exponent of Neoplatonism, which represented the interpretation of Plato that was prevalent in late antiquity. His thought had a considerable impact on all three Abrahamic…[Read more]

]]> 0 cc743f581b90abde6bda4e1aa69e132d Pramod Ranjan deposited बहुजन साहित्य की सैद्धांतिकी [Bahujan Sahitya Ki Saiddhantikī] in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900451/ Wed, 02 Oct 2024 03:00:02 -0400 प्रमोद रंजन द्वारा संपादित “बहुजन साहित्य की सैद्धांतिकी” बहुजन साहित्य की अवधारणा का सैद्धांतिकरण करती है। यह पुस्तक बहुजन साहित्य के विभिन्न पहलुओं को गहराई से समझने और उनके सैद्धांतिक आधार को प्रस्तुत करने का प्रयास करती है।

बहुजन साहित्य की अवधारणा कई स्तरों पर विचरोत्तेजक है। सही मायने में यह प्रगतिशील, जनवादी और दलित साहि…[Read more]

]]> 0 707279b2fe2a151e1dd5c74372378d03 Meredith Warren deposited There Was a Man Who Had Two Sons: A Parable of Futurity, Reproductivity, Utopia, and Social Death in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1899809/ Thu, 26 Sep 2024 03:00:47 -0400 Few of the parables found in the gospels have received more attention than the parable of the man with two sons, commonly known as the parable of the Prodigal Son. In this paper, I argue that discourses of queer futurity can help make new sense of the parable, highlighting its use of family structures and its assumptions about time, and attending…[Read more]

]]> 0 16b3f5a725f8dbf304ab6f6376741460 Manfred Engel deposited Making - or Not Making - Sense of Dreams / Trouver - ou non - un sens au rêve. Ed. by Bernard Dieterle, Manfred Engel and Laura Vordermayer. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2024 (Cultural Dream Studies; 9) — Contents and Preface in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1898531/ Thu, 12 Sep 2024 03:00:53 -0400 Dreams frighten and attract us because of their ›otherness‹, their manifold deviations from the world we know when we are awake. One of the most consistently used techniques of coming to terms with this otherness has been the attempt to ›make sense‹ of dreams, to consider and portray them as messages which can and have to be deciphered. On the oth…[Read more]

]]> 0 665e37928cab2f649c6aaf0abf22b6bd Ana Dumitran deposited Ecclesia super omnia in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897870/ Wed, 04 Sep 2024 03:00:17 -0400 The volume includes some of the papers presented in the Museikon section of the Annual Scientific Conference organised in 2023 by the Alba Iulia National Museum of the Great Union (Romania). The studies cover topics such as: the pious behavior of women in the Transylvanian Middle Ages, the possession of slaves and gypsies by the Wallachian…[Read more]

]]> 0 8305a57a12c2740a76138252b93b63d9 Sonia D. Andras deposited Sonia D. Andras - Negotiations En Vogue: Interwar Romanian Women as Fashion Icons Represented in American Vogue (Conference Presentation, 2023, Audio Only) in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897550/ Fri, 30 Aug 2024 03:00:32 -0400 Presentation at the "Romanian American Negotiations in Education, Science, Culture, and Arts/Negocierile româno-americane în educație, știință, cultură și artă" Conference.
This paper explores Romanian women’s influence on US fashion, as representatives of European artistic, cultural and social elites and as genuine Parisiennes. This study trea…[Read more]

]]> 0 12099403633f603c7ee656cc04085a0d Sonia D. Andras deposited Romanian-American Negotiations in Education, Science, Culture, and Arts in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896774/ Tue, 20 Aug 2024 03:00:09 -0400 As a political model for the young democracy in interwar Romania, as a protector against threats to the sovereignty and integrity of the state, as a cultural model, and as a daily life, America represented for Romania a reference point, a factor of stability and progress. America was a model and ally of the civilized world!
Unfortunately,…[Read more]

]]> 0 d480c3a397df301e743f9bb947585c5f Adam DJ Brett deposited REL 500/600: The Religious Origins of White Supremacy: Johnson v. M'Intosh and the Doctrine of Christian Discovery in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896637/ Sun, 18 Aug 2024 03:00:35 -0400 In a series of Papal Bulls from the 15th century developed what is now known as the “Doctrine of Christian Discovery” (DoCD). These documents granted land title to Christian explorers when they entered the territories not ruled by a Christian Prince. While there have always been localized expressions of intolerance and hatred toward other cul…[Read more]

]]> 0 e2e76fe9ccd9c1b2dc020788e7849ed2 Seo-Young Chu deposited Describing DICTEE in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896115/ Tue, 13 Aug 2024 03:04:50 -0400 The visual images in Dictee are famously captionless. They resist straightforward explanation. In writing image descriptions of the images in Dictee, I have tried to preserve the "captionlessness" of the original. The point here is not to explain the pictures—an image description is not identical to a caption—but to make Dictee more accessible to…[Read more]

]]> 0 cf2fcb3b7ea1ede69b99059927cc0355 Ana Dumitran deposited The Icons of Alexander Ponekhalsky. Jertfa di la mine zugrău Alexa cel păcătos in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895890/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:00:53 -0400 This editorial project capitalizes on a first sample of the religious art of Maramureș, carefully and meticulously inventoried by Alexandru Baboș alongside the study of the architecture of the wooden churches of Maramureș. Since they alone account for almost half of all preserved icons from Maramureș, Alexander Ponekhalskyi's icons have been sep…[Read more]

]]> 0 ff5dff169c352d1e59083749813861e0 Evina Stein(ova) deposited Freising (Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project) in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895617/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 03:00:30 -0400 This article was prepared for the Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project in 2016. It surveys the development of Carolingian minuscule, a Latin script used in the earlier Middle Ages, at Freising in Bavaria. The article provides an overview of manuscripts copied, corrected, or annotated in Carolingian minuscule at Freising and summarises the…[Read more]

]]> 0 5a200eaaf5c0f6ba69ea587161410b7e Anna-Marie Kroupová replied to the topic CFP: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? in the forum Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/cultural-studies/forum/topic/cfp-iron-curtains-or-artistic-gates-4/#post-88124 Fri, 26 Jul 2024 11:00:51 -0400 Workshop: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? Communism and Cultural Diplomacy in the Global South (1945–1991 and Beyond)

19–20 September 2024

 

Upper Belvedere

Prinz-Eugen-Straße 27, 1030 Vienna, Austria

 

Organizers: Anna-Marie Kroupová & Noémie Étienne (University of Vienna)

 

This workshop challenges traditional East-West Cold War narra…[Read more]

]]> b0a5e21a380acc1ee4e879f118682fbe Muhammad Naeem deposited Khafeef Makhfi Ki Khwab Beeti: The Dilemma of Novel and Biography خفیف مخفی کی خواب بیتی: ناول اور آپ بیتی کا الجھیڑا in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894674/ Fri, 26 Jul 2024 03:00:28 -0400 Mirza Athar Baig is a unique and unconventional novelist of Urdu. Each of his works of art constructs a new world. On top of that, his works also change the way we look at the world. His writings seem to be the stories of an adventurer, always trying to discover a new world. In 2022, when his novel Khafif Makhfi Ki Khwab Beeti came out, readers…[Read more]

]]> 0 1ea71e3753e0a630240f4040208a0d21 James A Benn deposited “‘Action Buddhism’ in the Medieval Chinese Empire,” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894296/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 03:00:26 -0400 This essay will focus mostly on the Tang dynastic empire (618–907 CE), a “second
wave” empire as defined in the Introduction to this volume, and its relations with
Buddhism, although it will be necessary to say something about earlier Chinese dynasties
and about other religions. As we shall see, an awareness of history permeates
the relat…[Read more]

]]> 0 f1373b0fccd123da762614f8c2dd6933 James A Benn deposited “Is Buddhist Self-Immolation a Form of Asceticism?” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894294/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 03:00:17 -0400 I am grateful for this opportunity to revisit some issues that remain
unresolved after my earlier publications on Buddhist self-immolation.

]]> 0 715797b49000554d3a2b87090d635fce James A Benn deposited “Some East Asian Buddhist Attitudes Towards non-Buddhist Practitioners in India,” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894292/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 03:00:03 -0400 Abstract: The early eighth-century Chinese Buddhist apocryphal scripture
known as Lengyan jing or Śūraṃgama sūtra contains some vivid and
lengthy descriptions of demonic states that may arise for the practitioner in
deep states of meditation. In some of these states, the practitioner is said to
experience profound mis-perceptions of real…[Read more]

]]> 0 1a4c4705317f203981f385de3ffca5c9 James A Benn deposited “Princess Miaoshan, Self-immolator?” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1893757/ Mon, 22 Jul 2024 03:00:34 -0400 In this paper, I offer a new reading of the popular narrative of
Princess Miaoshan in Chinese religion, placing it within the larger context
of self-immolation as found in Buddhist narratives and the actions of selfimmolators.
The acts of extreme violence done to Miaoshan by her father
and herself (she stabs the inside of her mouth with a…[Read more]

]]> 0 6268f5e4b349d9bcefe182bed3ecbe15 James A Benn deposited “China II: Buddhism in the Sui, Tang (and Zhou) Dynasties,” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1893755/ Mon, 22 Jul 2024 03:00:22 -0400 This is the final submitted version of my chapter for Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Some changes have been made in the published version and that version should be cited. I am sharing this version in accord with the copyright policy for Brill, which allows sharing of the accepted manuscript but not of the published .pdf. Full publication d…[Read more]

]]> 0 5d71c4f4b9e598b390585a0f21a2a63a Muhammad Naeem deposited غلام باغ: تشکیل ، تکنیک اور ناولانہ عالم ‎Ghulam Bagh: Formation, Technique and the Novelistic World‎ in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891550/ Thu, 11 Jul 2024 03:00:19 -0400 There are many ways of reading a novel. Generally, the major components of the novel (characters, plot, etc.) are the focus of criticism. The linguistic resources that make up these major components of the novel are not usually analyzed. A novel, like a poem, is constructed from words. It also sets the boundaries of chapters with words,…[Read more]

]]> 0 53122285e2840d38b11fb196a7215704 Muhammad Naeem deposited غلام باغ: تشکیل ، تکنیک اور ناولانہ عالم ‎Ghulam Bagh: Formation, Technique and the Novelistic World‎ in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891543/ Thu, 11 Jul 2024 03:00:06 -0400 There are many ways of reading a novel. Generally, the major components of the novel (characters, plot, etc.) are the focus of criticism. The linguistic resources that make up these major components of the novel are not usually analyzed. A novel, like a poem, is constructed from words. It also sets the boundaries of chapters with words,…[Read more]

]]> 0 21ccd2d5c6f6031a7df908a01412e42e Muhammad Naeem deposited GHULAM BAGH: AMBIVALENCE OF A POSTCOLONIAL NOVELIST غلام باغ: پسِ استعماری تخلیق کار کا مخمصہ in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891243/ Mon, 08 Jul 2024 03:01:48 -0400 A novel is at least a new world, or a new understanding of it. Is it possible to present the new world with old words? Or it requires new words. If the existing social structure (ethos) and concept of reality (world view) is to be changed, then mere wording does not work, one has to do experiments of form. Then, in a post-colonial society, it is…[Read more]

]]> 0 62fc9ee7dc2f3a3259faa27cf516dfa1 Muhammad Naeem deposited GHULAM BAGH: AMBIVALENCE OF A POSTCOLONIAL NOVELIST غلام باغ: پسِ استعماری تخلیق کار کا مخمصہ in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891242/ Mon, 08 Jul 2024 03:01:47 -0400 A novel is at least a new world, or a new understanding of it. Is it possible to present the new world with old words? Or it requires new words. If the existing social structure (ethos) and concept of reality (world view) is to be changed, then mere wording does not work, one has to do experiments of form. Then, in a post-colonial society, it is…[Read more]

]]> 0 129641620d8f55ce17172a6085258980 Muhammad Naeem deposited Spatial Study of Iqbal’s Urdu Poetry اقبال کی مکانیت: تجزیہ کلامِ اردو in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891239/ Mon, 08 Jul 2024 03:01:26 -0400 It is almost half a century ago, when spatial turn took place in humanities in western theory. Exploring the spatiality and mapping out the landscapes of literature and literary production has been on the go since. But spatiality and mapping could not attract the attention of Urdu research and literary analysis. Iqbal, the national poet of…[Read more]

]]> 0 b79bf6181400de59120e9b9246b2fea9 Muhammad Naeem deposited Spatial Study of Iqbal’s Urdu Poetry اقبال کی مکانیت: تجزیہ کلامِ اردو in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891238/ Mon, 08 Jul 2024 03:01:21 -0400 It is almost half a century ago, when spatial turn took place in humanities in western theory. Exploring the spatiality and mapping out the landscapes of literature and literary production has been on the go since. But spatiality and mapping could not attract the attention of Urdu research and literary analysis. Iqbal, the national poet of…[Read more]

]]> 0 f20071f4e27bad4e623739c5e56d7411 Muhammad Naeem deposited Discourse of Social Inequality and Race in Urdu Novel اردو ناول میں سماجی عدم مساوات اور نسل کا کلامیہ in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891224/ Mon, 08 Jul 2024 03:00:26 -0400 Inequality has many social forms. Economic, religious, ethnic and gender are the general differential phenomena on the basis of which the difference between the benefited and the deprived is found in the society. This difference becomes social when it is aimed at a group of people rather than the individual. Discrimination on the basis of race…[Read more]

]]> 0 edc7426539bf22af6830d67726718ee1 Muhammad Naeem deposited Discourse of Social Inequality and Race in Urdu Novel اردو ناول میں سماجی عدم مساوات اور نسل کا کلامیہ in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891218/ Mon, 08 Jul 2024 03:00:03 -0400 Inequality has many social forms. Economic, religious, ethnic and gender are the general differential phenomena on the basis of which the difference between the benefited and the deprived is found in the society. This difference becomes social when it is aimed at a group of people rather than the individual. Discrimination on the basis of race…[Read more]

]]> 0 a69f8c18f8c3acefde55230c603ebab5 Luis Ernesto Paz Enrique deposited Bien público en la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de la argumentación en el bachillerato universitario de México in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890750/ Mon, 01 Jul 2024 03:00:02 -0400 La retórica constituye un elemento fundamental para el análisis del discurso con una aplicación educativa de amplio espectro que incluye el área de la filosofía. La nueva retórica constituye una lógica informal sobre lo de lo valorativo y la argumentación. Esta perspectiva integra la semiótica y la multiplicidad de interpretaciones aplicabl…[Read more]

]]> 0 eb0d81f0858906e7c5bd9f21f07dc118 Vitus Angermeier deposited Slides: Goitres, Worms, and Haemorrhoids: Geographical Localisation of Endemic Diseases in Classical Āyurveda in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890600/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 03:06:04 -0400 As Āyurveda is at its core a highly individualistic science, information on how collective suffering was understood and treated is scarce in its foundational works. While the passages referring to epidemics and similar events have attracted some attention in the last decades, endemic diseases are an almost completely neglected topic. Francis…[Read more]

]]> 0 cc6bb4fbf1ba2941fac5b3a11718d4b4 Stanislav Panin deposited Translating Esotericism: Russian in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890335/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:12:48 -0400 An overview of the history of Russian terminology related to esotericism. This article is a part of the special issue of the journal Correspondences dedicated to the ways in which people speak about esotericism in different cultures.

]]> 0 c9706162c23e28f4087c25ac62ee3bfe Vitus Angermeier deposited Slides: Doctors Between Civilisation and Wilderness. Medical Geography in Pre-modern South Asia in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889646/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:00:22 -0400 Usually theories on disease causation and treatment in early Āyurveda focus on the individual patient, his diet, and his lifestyle. There are however certain contexts, in which the locality or origin of factors jeopardising health is significant. Some climatic regions are understood to constitute more unhealthy surroundings in relation to others.…[Read more]

]]> 0 f8bdd323ba2c09b7194d78df457d47b1 Sérgio Dias Branco deposited Our Lady of Struggle: Marian Devotion and Organized Labor in "Salt of the Earth" (1954) in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888694/ Sat, 08 Jun 2024 03:01:06 -0400 "Salt of the Earth" (1954) is viewed as one of the major examples of working-class cinema in the United States, yet its portrayal of the deep connection between the plight and struggle of Latino workers and Catholicism has not been developed in critical discussions of the film. This paper aims to address this aspect of the film. "Salt of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 bf366aedfbfd4fca59cc4b3ea75267c4 Valeria Graziano deposited ŽIVOTNA VJEŠTINA RAJE: INSTITUCIONALNO KRPARENJE I PUČKI ILEGALIZMI (THE RABBLE’S LIFECRAFT: INSTITUTIONAL TINKERING AND POPULAR ILLEGALISMS) in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888618/ Fri, 07 Jun 2024 03:00:06 -0400 The essay explores "institutional tinkering," which refers to practices of disobedience and resource reappropriation that highlight the contradictions within systems or institutions. It argues that practices of institutional tinkering and popular illegalisms are critical lenses to understand power dynamics and resistance in the ongoing crisis of…[Read more]

]]> 0 b0c7b18f87db7f565849ec6a177a943f Derek Johnston deposited Stephen Knight and History Seen Through a Gothic Lens in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888410/ Wed, 05 Jun 2024 03:01:30 -0400 This paper is part of a developing project on Gothic historical television dramas: fictions set in the past that use a Gothic mode to emphasise not just historical traumas but the persistence of those traumas to the present day. Stephen Knight’s work shows repeated concern with the traumas of exploitative capitalism, particularly on masculinity, a…[Read more]

]]> 0 69d7850b06917a13f7783d600e39b996 Yizhou Xu deposited DingTalk and Chinese Digital Workplace Surveillance in Pandemic Times in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887189/ Sun, 26 May 2024 03:00:11 -0400 The pandemic-imposed lockdowns and the shift to remote work during COVID-19 have fundamentally changed the notion of the workplace as workers are forced to work from home. Tech work, in particular, seems especially adept at adjusting to this disruption as much of existing labor practices are already digitally-mediated via software and platforms.…[Read more]

]]> 0 e6659346fa483db426f1ddbbb266fb34 Derek Johnston deposited Stephen Knight's BBC Dickens Adaptations and the Gothic Representation of History in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1885897/ Sat, 11 May 2024 03:02:03 -0400 This paper examines the various adaptation frameworks operating in Stephen Knight's television adaptations of Dickens for the BBC: A Christmas Carol (2019) and Great Expectations (2023) as part of a larger project focused on how employing a Gothic mode in historical drama encourages considerations of the past as a place of trauma that is still…[Read more]

]]> 0 1b11e4c0ed7804cc33435bb25b713d6c Faizat Oladunni Asifat deposited Beyond Western Hegemony: Empowering African Voices in Knowledge Production: Critical Scholarships and Questions in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1885797/ Fri, 10 May 2024 03:01:56 -0400 This essay aligns with broader discussions among scholars committed to advancing African knowledge and advocating for the centering of African perspectives. It acknowledges and discusses three impactful works by African scholars, emphasizing the transformative potential of African scholarship, the emergence of theories from the African community,…[Read more]

]]> 0 3c333dd781cbe761022db5efcbd5a804 Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Felt Connections Across the Indian Ocean: An Ethnographic Encounter with Grand Bassin, Mauritius in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884704/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:32:20 -0400 It is appropriate to understand the Mauritian Hindu state bourgeoisie’s diasporic politics based on Hindu connections to India as a strategy to consolidate their power. This strategy stands for the creation of a postcolonial nation in which such communities built on religious origins and transnational networks, Mauritian Hindus being by far the l…[Read more]

]]> 0 3474cbbee99a08e387664cb812fa6be4 Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Sonic atmospheres in Mauritian devotional Islam: Sensing transoceanic connections in a Creole society in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884701/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:32:01 -0400 Movement constitutes transoceanic spaces such as the Indian Ocean world. Sonic practices as atmospheres make such multilayered movements and connections palpable. The recitation of naʻt among Mauritian Muslims is an example of how sound and sonic practices can provide somatic evidence for transoceanic links in the Indian Ocean world. It is argued…[Read more]

]]> 0 e2a64cf1b098885a0e59fe1cd482a18c Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Twelver Shia Muslims’ right to the city: Public performance, media practices, and urban atmospheres in Mumbai in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884664/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:28:29 -0400 This chapter examines public religious performances and media practices among Twelver Shia Muslims in Mumbai. I argue that such practices produce intertwined claims of belonging on multiple levels. Public religious performances and their mediatic reproductions, particularly their sonic and movement-related dimensions, establish certain…[Read more]

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