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Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

THE EXTRACTION OF LEXICAL AND METRORHYTHMIC FEATURES WHICH ARE CHARACTERISTIC FOR THE GENRE AND THE STYLE AND FOR THEIR COMBINATIONS WITHIN THE PROCESS OF AUTOMATED PROCESSING OF TEXTS IN RUSSIAN

open access: yesСовременные информационные технологии и IT-образование, 2018
This paper describes the algorithm of automatic extraction of the characteristic features for the genre and the style. This work was carried out in the framework of the development of a software system created in the Institute of Computational ...
Vladimir B. Barakhnin   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Linguistics in the Study and Teaching of Literature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Literary texts include linguistic form, as well as specialized literary forms (some of which also involve language). Linguistics can offer to literary studies an understanding of these kinds of form, and the ways by which a text is used to communicate ...
Fabb, Nigel
core   +1 more source

Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review: An annual review of information science and technology paper

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
wiley   +1 more source

Symmetric and asymmetric relations, and the aesthetics of form in poetic language [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This article asks how the properties of symmetry and asymmetry, as aesthetic properties, are realized in literary language. I will argue that language makes available many kinds of asymmetry, and that the asymmetry often holds between two elements which ...
Fabb, Nigel
core  

Why We Need to Study Assisted Methods to Teach Typing to Nonspeaking Autistic People

open access: yesAutism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT At least one third of autistic people have limited or no speech. Most nonspeaking autistic people are never provided alternatives that would enable the full range of expression that speech allows, significantly limiting their access to educational, social, and employment opportunities.
Vikram K. Jaswal   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mimesis and Metaphor [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
"Representation", "imitation" and "mirroring" have proved to be insufficient translations of the concept of mimesis. Walter Benjamin's notion of "mimetic potential" offers a different view on the qualities of mimesis.
Eder, Thomas
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One Voice, Ancient and Resigned [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
While we know, or at least can imagine, what Gower looked like in his old age, it is hard to imagine or hear his voice. And yet, given what we know about his old age and visual impairments, his voice necessarily was important to his old age and ...
Rogers, Will
core   +1 more source

‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
wiley   +1 more source

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