Pub Date : 2022-08-15DOI: 10.1163/15692108-12341556
Dorothy V. Smith
{"title":"Casablanca Story, written by Koli Jean Bofane and translated by Bill Johnston","authors":"Dorothy V. Smith","doi":"10.1163/15692108-12341556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15692108-12341556","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54087,"journal":{"name":"African and Asian Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44941226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-09DOI: 10.1163/15692108-12341554
Jiarui Wu
{"title":"China – Africa and an Economic Transformation, written by Arkebe Oqubay and Justin Yifu Lin","authors":"Jiarui Wu","doi":"10.1163/15692108-12341554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15692108-12341554","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54087,"journal":{"name":"African and Asian Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48582009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-09DOI: 10.1163/15692108-12341553
Augustine Adu Frimpong
{"title":"Entrepreneurial Goals: Development and Africapitalism in Ghanaian Soccer Academies. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, written by Itamar Dubinsky","authors":"Augustine Adu Frimpong","doi":"10.1163/15692108-12341553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15692108-12341553","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54087,"journal":{"name":"African and Asian Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47246782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-05DOI: 10.1163/15692108-12341551
Meng Chai, Wentao Wan, Songzhang Yan, Sichun Lu
Creativity of primary and secondary school students is a major focus of research in the educational science. In this study, we examined how willpower affects the creativity of Chinese primary and secondary school students and what role the knowledge reserves and creative thinking play in this process. Specifically, we hypothesize that (a) elementary and middle school students’ willpower has a direct positive effect on their creativity, (b) willpower influences their creativity mediated by knowledge reserves and creative thinking, and (c) willpower influences their creativity development through a significant serial multiple mediating effect of knowledge reserves and creative thinking. In this study, a total of 5,176 primary and middle school students ranging from the grade 1 to 9 completed a set of questionnaires assessing willpower, knowledge reserves, creative thinking, and creativity. We used structural equation modeling to test the relationship between the variables in the Research Objectives. Results indicate that the direct positive effect of elementary and middle school students’ willpower on creativity production is weak, and the indirect effect mediated by knowledge reserves and creative thinking is significant. Results suggest that cultivating primary and secondary school students’ willpower is important to enhance their creativity, and teachers can better help Chinese primary and secondary school students develop their creativity by not only choosing appropriate teaching strategies in the process of creative education, but also by paying attention to making willpower closely integrated with the knowledge reserves and creative thinking.
{"title":"The Effects of Willpower on Chinese Primary and Secondary School Students’ Creativity","authors":"Meng Chai, Wentao Wan, Songzhang Yan, Sichun Lu","doi":"10.1163/15692108-12341551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15692108-12341551","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Creativity of primary and secondary school students is a major focus of research in the educational science. In this study, we examined how willpower affects the creativity of Chinese primary and secondary school students and what role the knowledge reserves and creative thinking play in this process. Specifically, we hypothesize that (a) elementary and middle school students’ willpower has a direct positive effect on their creativity, (b) willpower influences their creativity mediated by knowledge reserves and creative thinking, and (c) willpower influences their creativity development through a significant serial multiple mediating effect of knowledge reserves and creative thinking. In this study, a total of 5,176 primary and middle school students ranging from the grade 1 to 9 completed a set of questionnaires assessing willpower, knowledge reserves, creative thinking, and creativity. We used structural equation modeling to test the relationship between the variables in the Research Objectives. Results indicate that the direct positive effect of elementary and middle school students’ willpower on creativity production is weak, and the indirect effect mediated by knowledge reserves and creative thinking is significant. Results suggest that cultivating primary and secondary school students’ willpower is important to enhance their creativity, and teachers can better help Chinese primary and secondary school students develop their creativity by not only choosing appropriate teaching strategies in the process of creative education, but also by paying attention to making willpower closely integrated with the knowledge reserves and creative thinking.","PeriodicalId":54087,"journal":{"name":"African and Asian Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46335767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-05DOI: 10.1163/15692108-12341549
S. Parlak, Ç. Çelebi, Neslihan Yaman
In this phenomenological study, it was attempted to carry out an in-depth investigation of the anxiety experiences of domestic workers, who were working as housekeepers but could not continue their work life during the COVID-19 outbreak. Through this, it was aimed to reveal their experiences regarding the anxiety they experienced during the pandemic process. In this study, in which the criterion sampling method was used, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 16 domestic worker women between the ages of 30–42. The 4-step data analysis process in Giorgi’s descriptive phenomenology pattern was used in the analyses. The descriptive phenomenological analysis revealed five main themes that describe the participants’ experiences: i) anxiety symptoms, ii) financial difficulties, iii) interfamilial relationships, iv) uncertainty and v) emotions that accompany anxiety. The main themes obtained by this research were similar to the sources of anxiety, its components and the emotions accompanying anxiety mentioned in the literature. During the quarantine days, it was seen that the most intense emotion experienced by domestic workers was anxiety. Although the lockdown and unemployment experiences of each participant is unique, it was determined that the most important determinants of this were economic problems due to the lack of job security.
{"title":"Looking at Anxiety from the Eyes of Domestic Workers: The Covid-19 Pandemic of 2020 Experience in Istanbul","authors":"S. Parlak, Ç. Çelebi, Neslihan Yaman","doi":"10.1163/15692108-12341549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15692108-12341549","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000In this phenomenological study, it was attempted to carry out an in-depth investigation of the anxiety experiences of domestic workers, who were working as housekeepers but could not continue their work life during the COVID-19 outbreak. Through this, it was aimed to reveal their experiences regarding the anxiety they experienced during the pandemic process. In this study, in which the criterion sampling method was used, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 16 domestic worker women between the ages of 30–42. The 4-step data analysis process in Giorgi’s descriptive phenomenology pattern was used in the analyses. The descriptive phenomenological analysis revealed five main themes that describe the participants’ experiences: i) anxiety symptoms, ii) financial difficulties, iii) interfamilial relationships, iv) uncertainty and v) emotions that accompany anxiety. The main themes obtained by this research were similar to the sources of anxiety, its components and the emotions accompanying anxiety mentioned in the literature. During the quarantine days, it was seen that the most intense emotion experienced by domestic workers was anxiety. Although the lockdown and unemployment experiences of each participant is unique, it was determined that the most important determinants of this were economic problems due to the lack of job security.","PeriodicalId":54087,"journal":{"name":"African and Asian Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47659312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-28DOI: 10.1163/15692108-12341548
Tsz Chung Yow
{"title":"The Chile Pepper in China: A Cultural Biography, written by Brian R. Dott","authors":"Tsz Chung Yow","doi":"10.1163/15692108-12341548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15692108-12341548","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54087,"journal":{"name":"African and Asian Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46310465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-24DOI: 10.1163/15692108-12341547
D. Whitehead
{"title":"The Genesis of the Civil War in Somalia: The Impact of Foreign Military Intervention on the Continent, written by Muuse Yuusuf War, Women and Post-Conflict Empowerment: Lessons from Sierra Leone, edited by Josephine Beoku-Betts & Fredline A. M’Cormack-Hale","authors":"D. Whitehead","doi":"10.1163/15692108-12341547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15692108-12341547","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54087,"journal":{"name":"African and Asian Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42805249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-10DOI: 10.1163/15692108-12341546
Tsz Chung Yow
{"title":"The Making of Barbarians: Chinese Literature and Multilingual Asia, written by Haun Saussy","authors":"Tsz Chung Yow","doi":"10.1163/15692108-12341546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15692108-12341546","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54087,"journal":{"name":"African and Asian Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48381777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-10DOI: 10.1163/15692108-12341542
Noah Kwarteng Kankam
{"title":"African Security: An Introduction, written by John Siko and Jonah Victor Security In Nigeria: Contemporary Threats and Responses, edited by Caroline Varin and Freedom Onuoha","authors":"Noah Kwarteng Kankam","doi":"10.1163/15692108-12341542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15692108-12341542","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54087,"journal":{"name":"African and Asian Studies","volume":"36 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41300323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-27DOI: 10.1163/15692108-12341544
S. Adem
{"title":"Connecting Africa and Asia: Afrasia as a Benign Community, written by Yoichi Mine","authors":"S. Adem","doi":"10.1163/15692108-12341544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15692108-12341544","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54087,"journal":{"name":"African and Asian Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42182882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}