This paper aimed to explore the complexities that invoked colonial history and its connection to the contemporary contexts marked by multiculturalism, the war on terror, identity disintegration, displacement, and immigration. It investigated the intricate interplay between photographic realism and contemporary themes within Mohsin Hamid’s novel “Exit West.” The study delved into the meticulous portrayal of migration, geopolitical landscapes, counterterrorism measures, and the influence of digital technology within the narrative. By drawing parallels between Hamid’s prose and photographic realism, the analysis focused on the nuanced exploration of displacement and conflict. The examination of magical doors as a literary device akin to photographic realism revealed their role in capturing the instability of geopolitical structures and disrupting conventional borders. Photographic realism was adopted as a literary theoretical framework. This research contributed to a deeper understanding of how Hamid’s novel served as a critical commentary on the multifaceted challenges within the global human experience, emphasizing the relevance of photographic realism in contemporary literary analysis. After a thematic analysis of the primary text, it was concluded that the novel was a critical portrayal of migrant labor as a commodity, cosmopolitanism, contemporary sociocultural and geopolitical dilemmas, the exploitative nature of the state’s projects, and interracial integration.
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Moyosoluwa Dele-Dada, Daniel Gberevbie, Fadeke Owolabi
Structural violence imposes constraints on achieving equitable, affordable, accessible, and high-quality public services, encompassing healthcare. Despite establishing the LSHS, aimed at providing healthcare irrespective of economic status, residents continue to experience deprivation, restricted access, and substandard healthcare services. Doubts arise regarding the efficacy of legislative oversight in mitigating structural violence. This study explores this issue by employing a comprehensive methodology involving primary and secondary data collection through literature reviews, questionnaires, and interviews. The analysis reveals that the prevalence of structural violence within the LSHS cannot be exclusively attributed to deficiencies in the oversight responsibilities of the Lagos State House of Assembly. Lingering disparities, limited accessibility, unaffordability, and inadequate healthcare quality persist. Contributing factors encompass inadequate funding mechanisms, and deficiencies in communication, among others. Challenges such as executive interference, corruption, and the absence of a robust legislative framework impede the effectiveness of oversight.
{"title":"Legislative oversight and structural violence in the Lagos State Health Scheme: A study of Alimosho Local Government Area","authors":"Moyosoluwa Dele-Dada, Daniel Gberevbie, Fadeke Owolabi","doi":"10.58256/x0qhxp81","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58256/x0qhxp81","url":null,"abstract":"Structural violence imposes constraints on achieving equitable, affordable, accessible, and high-quality public services, encompassing healthcare. Despite establishing the LSHS, aimed at providing healthcare irrespective of economic status, residents continue to experience deprivation, restricted access, and substandard healthcare services. Doubts arise regarding the efficacy of legislative oversight in mitigating structural violence. This study explores this issue by employing a comprehensive methodology involving primary and secondary data collection through literature reviews, questionnaires, and interviews. The analysis reveals that the prevalence of structural violence within the LSHS cannot be exclusively attributed to deficiencies in the oversight responsibilities of the Lagos State House of Assembly. Lingering disparities, limited accessibility, unaffordability, and inadequate healthcare quality persist. Contributing factors encompass inadequate funding mechanisms, and deficiencies in communication, among others. Challenges such as executive interference, corruption, and the absence of a robust legislative framework impede the effectiveness of oversight.","PeriodicalId":516818,"journal":{"name":"Research Journal in Advanced Humanities","volume":"152 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140501246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The purpose of this study is to describe the values of social intelligence associated with the character of Beteri in folktales of Kedurang, Bengkulu, and to explore the community’s perspectives about Beteri. Researchers collected folktales featuring Beteri, conducted interviews with informants, and analyzed the contents of the collected folktales to identify the values of social intelligence within them. The analyzed stories featuring various Beteri characters are Beteri and Sinamnam, Beteri and Bujang Bekurung, and The Kindness of Beteri. The results revealed that the social intelligence depicted in the story of Beteri encompasses two main dimensions: social awareness and social facilities. Researchers identified representations of social intelligence in the story, including caring, alignment, empathic accuracy, influence, and social cognition. This social intelligence is manifested in Beteri’s actions during interactions with other characters and her attitude when facing problems. Findings from observations and interviews also indicate that people consider Beteri to be a model virtue, being described as a very good girl.
{"title":"Investigating the influence of Beteri’s social intelligence in ‘Andai-andai’ folktales on societal perspectives","authors":"Febi Junaidi, Andi Adam Rahmanto, Eka Fitriana, Dannis Ni'matussyahara, Ariska Damayanti, Ratnasari Dwi Riyanti, Sunardy","doi":"10.58256/cgz85c35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58256/cgz85c35","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study is to describe the values of social intelligence associated with the character of Beteri in folktales of Kedurang, Bengkulu, and to explore the community’s perspectives about Beteri. Researchers collected folktales featuring Beteri, conducted interviews with informants, and analyzed the contents of the collected folktales to identify the values of social intelligence within them. The analyzed stories featuring various Beteri characters are Beteri and Sinamnam, Beteri and Bujang Bekurung, and The Kindness of Beteri. The results revealed that the social intelligence depicted in the story of Beteri encompasses two main dimensions: social awareness and social facilities. Researchers identified representations of social intelligence in the story, including caring, alignment, empathic accuracy, influence, and social cognition. This social intelligence is manifested in Beteri’s actions during interactions with other characters and her attitude when facing problems. Findings from observations and interviews also indicate that people consider Beteri to be a model virtue, being described as a very good girl. ","PeriodicalId":516818,"journal":{"name":"Research Journal in Advanced Humanities","volume":"215 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140501160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dwi Widayati, Rosliana Lubis, Nurhayati Harahap, Rachmad Fadillah Maha
This research highlights the ecosophy in the folklore of the Pakpak Dairi community (PDC). This qualitative descriptive research uses the critical ecolinguistics approach of Stibbe. The data collection was carried out by using note-taking techniques. The data were in the form of words, phrases and sentences related to the environment (ecolinguistics) in the folklore "Berru Leto". From the analysis, it was found that ecosophy is related to the teaching of life, especially in the relationship between humans and humans, humans and the environment, and humans and God. From this representation, the folklore "Berru Leto" contains a positive assessment which aims to provide understanding in order to maintain relationships between humans and humans, especially children and parents. Apart from that, it is very necessary to maintain human relationships with the environment and human relationships with God. It contains constructive things for the environment and life because it contains wisdom. This folklore reveals and appreciates the issues of life and well-being of all species, promotes human well-being, promotes environmental understanding, and promotes the redistribution of resources. This will certainly contribute to the regional potential related to the environment if the wisdom of this story is still applied by PDC.
本研究强调了帕克帕克达伊里社区（PDC）民俗中的生态哲学。这项定性描述研究采用了斯蒂贝（Stibbe）的批判性生态语言学方法。数据收集采用笔记技术。数据的形式是民间传说 "Berru Leto "中与环境（生态语言学）有关的词、短语和句子。通过分析发现，生态哲学与生命教育有关，特别是人与人、人与环境、人与神之间的关系。从这一表述来看，民间传说 "Berru Leto "包含了一种积极的评价，旨在提供理解，以维护人与人之间的关系，尤其是孩子与父母之间的关系。除此之外，维护人与环境、人与神之间的关系也是非常必要的。它包含对环境和生活有建设性的东西，因为它蕴含着智慧。这种民俗揭示和理解所有物种的生命和福祉问题，促进人类福祉，促进对环境的理解，促进资源的重新分配。如果 PDC 仍能运用这一故事中的智慧，必将有助于挖掘与环境有关的区域潜力。
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Nadia Yas, Yas Al-Bayati, Mohammad Ibrahim Sarhan, Zeana Ghanim Abdijabar
The study addresses social awareness of the phenomenon of environmental pollution in urban society. A field study was conducted in the city of Baghdad, the capital of the Republic of Iraq. The study aims to identify social awareness of environmental pollution and the causes leading to its occurrence, as well as the role of the media, especially environmental media, in educating the public about environmental culture and raising awareness of its social, health, and developmental risks. The position of civil law in determining the perpetrator's responsibility, forcing him to compensate, and confronting the effects of pollution within the framework of civil liability for environmental pollution damage, especially since there are problems with civil liability for pollution damage, in determining the legal basis for this responsibility about error and damage The researcher used four scientific methods in the study: the descriptive method, the historical method, the comparative method, and the social survey method. The study used a stratified random sample, as the research population was divided into three classes of society: the upper class, the middle class, and the popular class. A percentage of (2%) was drawn from each class, and we obtained a sample consisting of 481 respondents from male and female heads of households. The study reached a set of conclusions, including, but not limited to, that the wars experienced by Iraqi society are a major reason for increasing the severity of environmental pollution and that environmental pollution has led to the emergence of serious diseases such as physical and congenital deformities, as well as social and psychological diseases, especially individual indifference and weakness. loyalty and belonging to the community. The study also concluded that the Iraqi media is weak at creating social-environmental awareness among the public about the culture of the environment and pollution. In light of the conclusions reached by the study, recommendations and proposals were made, most notably the importance of the family educating its children about the dangers of environmental pollution, the necessity of developing school curricula concerned with environmental education for all educational levels, publishing media messages concerned with social awareness of the environment, and simplifying them to spread environmental awareness to all segments of society.
{"title":"Environmental pollution and its relationship to the media and the law: Awareness of the dialectics of the complementary relationship","authors":"Nadia Yas, Yas Al-Bayati, Mohammad Ibrahim Sarhan, Zeana Ghanim Abdijabar","doi":"10.58256/cfrs0347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58256/cfrs0347","url":null,"abstract":" The study addresses social awareness of the phenomenon of environmental pollution in urban society. A field study was conducted in the city of Baghdad, the capital of the Republic of Iraq. The study aims to identify social awareness of environmental pollution and the causes leading to its occurrence, as well as the role of the media, especially environmental media, in educating the public about environmental culture and raising awareness of its social, health, and developmental risks. The position of civil law in determining the perpetrator's responsibility, forcing him to compensate, and confronting the effects of pollution within the framework of civil liability for environmental pollution damage, especially since there are problems with civil liability for pollution damage, in determining the legal basis for this responsibility about error and damage The researcher used four scientific methods in the study: the descriptive method, the historical method, the comparative method, and the social survey method. The study used a stratified random sample, as the research population was divided into three classes of society: the upper class, the middle class, and the popular class. A percentage of (2%) was drawn from each class, and we obtained a sample consisting of 481 respondents from male and female heads of households. The study reached a set of conclusions, including, but not limited to, that the wars experienced by Iraqi society are a major reason for increasing the severity of environmental pollution and that environmental pollution has led to the emergence of serious diseases such as physical and congenital deformities, as well as social and psychological diseases, especially individual indifference and weakness. loyalty and belonging to the community. The study also concluded that the Iraqi media is weak at creating social-environmental awareness among the public about the culture of the environment and pollution. In light of the conclusions reached by the study, recommendations and proposals were made, most notably the importance of the family educating its children about the dangers of environmental pollution, the necessity of developing school curricula concerned with environmental education for all educational levels, publishing media messages concerned with social awareness of the environment, and simplifying them to spread environmental awareness to all segments of society.","PeriodicalId":516818,"journal":{"name":"Research Journal in Advanced Humanities","volume":"48 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140511180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Teachers’ personal and professional life depends heavily on their health and self-care. This article examines the value of teacher wellbeing and self-care, educators’ difficulties, and the possible advantages of putting their physical, mental, and emotional health first. The many challenges teachers face can have an impact on their wellness. Teachers frequently struggle to maintain a healthy work-life balance because of the hard job, long hours, and time limits. Additionally, the emotional demands of the job, such as handling difficult circumstances or managing student behavior problems, might result in elevated stress levels. These issues are made more difficult by scarce resources, a lack of support networks, and a culture that puts teacher wellbeing last. Schools and higher tertiary institutions may establish a happy and encouraging environment that improves overall student results by recognizing and addressing the wellbeing of instructors. This paper will encourage teachers to release the power of self-care and prioritize their wellbeing. This research paper focused on the benefits of teachers’ wellbeing and self-care, the common challenges teachers face, and strategies for promoting teachers’ wellbeing and self-care. A qualitative secondary data research approach was used in data collection, which uncovered numerous elements that significantly impact teachers’ wellbeing.
{"title":"Unleashing the power of teacher’s wellbeing and selfcare","authors":"Mouna Abou Assali, Khameis Al Abdouli","doi":"10.58256/3nrd9d62","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58256/3nrd9d62","url":null,"abstract":"Teachers’ personal and professional life depends heavily on their health and self-care. This article examines the value of teacher wellbeing and self-care, educators’ difficulties, and the possible advantages of putting their physical, mental, and emotional health first. The many challenges teachers face can have an impact on their wellness. Teachers frequently struggle to maintain a healthy work-life balance because of the hard job, long hours, and time limits. Additionally, the emotional demands of the job, such as handling difficult circumstances or managing student behavior problems, might result in elevated stress levels. These issues are made more difficult by scarce resources, a lack of support networks, and a culture that puts teacher wellbeing last. Schools and higher tertiary institutions may establish a happy and encouraging environment that improves overall student results by recognizing and addressing the wellbeing of instructors. This paper will encourage teachers to release the power of self-care and prioritize their wellbeing. This research paper focused on the benefits of teachers’ wellbeing and self-care, the common challenges teachers face, and strategies for promoting teachers’ wellbeing and self-care. A qualitative secondary data research approach was used in data collection, which uncovered numerous elements that significantly impact teachers’ wellbeing.","PeriodicalId":516818,"journal":{"name":"Research Journal in Advanced Humanities","volume":"4 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140510727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This research aims to identify the relationship between the concepts of "literary theory" and "literary criticism"; as a crisis was formed in reaching an agreement between the critics on defining the concept of these terms. Thus, the research seeks to identify these two terms and examine their implications in the modern literary lesson. The research takes an analytical and investigative approach based on how to use terms, understand them and apply them in research writing. The research has found that there is a discrepancy in the use of terms and their understanding and invocation in research writing. These terms came to us from Europe, which took them from the Greek and Latin cultures. The research concludes that there is a difference between critics and writers during the literary study about basic concepts, which requires them to go through them by definition, commentary, and deduction, such as the concept of literature itself, creativity, reception, criticism, literary history, literary schools, and others.
{"title":"Literary Theory and its Role in Modern and ContemporaryCriticism: A Critical Approach","authors":"Ismail Almazaidah","doi":"10.58256/zebr1z41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58256/zebr1z41","url":null,"abstract":"This research aims to identify the relationship between the concepts of \"literary theory\" and \"literary criticism\"; as a crisis was formed in reaching an agreement between the critics on defining the concept of these terms. Thus, the research seeks to identify these two terms and examine their implications in the modern literary lesson. The research takes an analytical and investigative approach based on how to use terms, understand them and apply them in research writing. The research has found that there is a discrepancy in the use of terms and their understanding and invocation in research writing. These terms came to us from Europe, which took them from the Greek and Latin cultures. The research concludes that there is a difference between critics and writers during the literary study about basic concepts, which requires them to go through them by definition, commentary, and deduction, such as the concept of literature itself, creativity, reception, criticism, literary history, literary schools, and others.","PeriodicalId":516818,"journal":{"name":"Research Journal in Advanced Humanities","volume":"57 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140511633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Our research deals ( Composition System in the experience of the artist Georges Braque) addresses Based on the importance of research as an effective energy, the diversity of material and experimentation carried out by the artist George Braque , through his transitional phases in his constructive system between analysis and composition in his artistic output. In its methodological frameworks Chapter I highlighted the problem of research and its importance and came up with several questions for the problem: What constructive composition system is followed by the artist in his achievements for his artistic experience? What techniques and mechanisms do I adopt in shaping his artistic achievement? Influential or associated references in George Braque artistic experience that contributed to the creation of those intellectual variables or theses through his transition stages within the artistic achievement? Is the artist’s experience, an extension or a reference for many contemporary art products, which we are witnessing today in the arena of art formation?.
{"title":"Composition System in the experience of the artist Georges Braque","authors":"Ritaj Ibrahim Bedn","doi":"10.58256/6qjzgj94","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58256/6qjzgj94","url":null,"abstract":"Our research deals ( Composition System in the experience of the artist Georges Braque) addresses Based on the importance of research as an effective energy, the diversity of material and experimentation carried out by the artist George Braque , through his transitional phases in his constructive system between analysis and composition in his artistic output. In its methodological frameworks Chapter I highlighted the problem of research and its importance and came up with several questions for the problem: What constructive composition system is followed by the artist in his achievements for his artistic experience? What techniques and mechanisms do I adopt in shaping his artistic achievement? Influential or associated references in George Braque artistic experience that contributed to the creation of those intellectual variables or theses through his transition stages within the artistic achievement? Is the artist’s experience, an extension or a reference for many contemporary art products, which we are witnessing today in the arena of art formation?.","PeriodicalId":516818,"journal":{"name":"Research Journal in Advanced Humanities","volume":"69 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140511974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
West Kalimantan is a border region between Indonesia and Malaysia. Most of the population in Kalimantan consists of the Malay and Dayak ethnic groups. The Malay people have a highly diverse culture, and one of their cultural expressions is syair (Malay poetry). This research aimed to describe the religious values represented in Malay poetry in Ketapang, West Kalimantan. Thus, the researcher employed an ethnographic approach. Data were collected through observation and interviews. The study was conducted in Ketapang region. The findings indicated that the religious values in syair in Ketapang consisted of 25 about beliefs (aqidah), 71 about Islamic laws (syariah), 31 about ethics (akhlaq), 6 about Islamic principles, 17 about faith (iman), and 50 about good deeds (ihsan). These results have positive implications for syair in the Malay community in Ketapang, ensuring that it is recognized and continues to thrive. This research can be a reference source for learning religious values-based literature in the schools and has benefits as an effort to preserve syair in West Kalimantan.
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In his oeuvre, Femi Osofisan challenges class inequalities by upbraiding the materialistic predilections of the upper class. Therefore, critics view his plays as revolutionary manuscripts designed for social awakening and interpret them from a Marxist perspective. Marxist interpretation has, to a good degree, undermined other ideological potential and evident discursive engagements which abound in multiple hierarchies in his plays. This study advances the frontiers of interpretations in Osofisan’s plays by providing alternative meanings in them besides Marxism. Through the theoretical praxis of Material Culture, I argue that beyond Marxist, class proclivities, Osofisan in No More the Wasted Breed (1983) and Once Upon Four Robbers (1980) commits to cultural rebirth in Africa through animist materialism, a spiritual, sociocultural appropriation process which inputs lifeforce to natural objects like rivers, plants, and animals. In addition to their material, totemic, sublunary significance, these natural objects acquire mystical and magical essence, thus contributing to the reification of African spiritual practices found in the plays. The spiritual practices rehabilitate African culture, promoting and re-enchanting its symbolic orthodoxy in the modern world. The study demonstrates that, instead of rejecting modernity, animist materialism as an African spiritual practice accommodates aspects of modernity, incorporating them as part of Africa’s cultural heritage.
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